tecosaur / Emacs Everywhere
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#+title: Emacs Everywhere #+author: TEC #+date: 2021-02-06
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A re-implementation of the fantastic idea in [[https://github.com/zachcurry/emacs-anywhere][zachcurry/emacs-anywhere]].
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- Installation
Just install from [[https://melpa.org/][MELPA]], and you're ready to go.
** Doom
Available with the =:app everywhere= module (and with a nice modeline).
** Dependencies
On Linux, ensure you have the following dependencies satisfied: =xclip=, =xdotool=, =xprop=, and =xwininfo=.
- Usage
Invoke the Emacs Everywhere executable^{†}. I recommend doing this by binding a shortcut to: #+begin_src shell emacsclient --eval "(emacs-everywhere)" #+end_src
A new Emacs frame will appear, within which you can type away to your heart's content. It will remember which window you have focused.
By default, emacs-everywhere-insert-selection is a hook in
emacs-everywhere-init-hooks, and will insert the last text selection into your
new buffer. To clear this, type =DEL= or =C-SPC= /before anything else/.
Once you've finished and want to insert the text into the window you triggered
Emacs Everywhere from, just press =C-c C-c= or =C-x 5 0= to close the frame and
paste the content into the window (as long as emacs-everywhere-paste-p is
non-nil).
If you do /not/ wish to paste the buffer content into the original window, =C-c C-k= still copies the content to the clipboard, but never pastes.
^{†} This requires the Emacs daemon to be running, but that's super easy. Just call =emacs --daemon= and you're sorted!