How can i paste the selected region outside of emacs?

Question

I am using Mac OS and emacs -nw (the terminal mode). I don\'t know how can I paste things (having been implemented by M-w in emacs -nw) outside the emacs.

Answer 1

If you are using Ubuntu 12.04 or Fedora 21, there are a couple of options to make this work.

First you need to install xclip

sudo apt-get install xclip

First Option: For Emacs 24

If you are using emacs24 you can install from the list of packages

M-x package-list-packages

Select

xclip //mine was version 1.3

In your .emacs add:

(xclip-mode 1)

Second Option. For emacs before version 24

Install xclip.el: Integrating Emacs with the X11 Clipboard in Linux

Third Option. Using @Nicholas Riley code shown in the answer

To use the code in the answer you need pbcopy / pbpaste in Ubuntu (command line clipboard)