Hello,
Question #1:
(defun haroogan/evil-paste-from-clipboard ()
"Paste text from system clipboard."
(interactive)
(evil-paste-from-register ?+))
(evil-define-operator haroogan/evil-yank-to-clipboard (beg end type
yank-handler)
"Yank text to system clipboard."
:move-point nil
:repeat nil
(interactive "<x><y>")
(evil-yank beg end type ?+ yank-handler))
Paste works as intended. Yank works partly:
* after yanking I can paste this text into other applications;
* but I cannot paste it into the Emacs itself, i.e. by
using|haroogan/evil-paste-from-clipboard|- it says that
the|kill-ring|is empty; how come?
* furthermore, bell rings when I'm yanking with this function - like
if it was an error - that's very strange too.
For the reference, in my|.vimrc|I have the following:
" Cut to the system clipboard.
nnoremap <C-x> "+x
vnoremap <C-x> "+x
cnoremap<C-x> "+x
" Yank to the system clipboard.
nnoremap <C-y> "+y
vnoremap <C-y> "+y
cnoremap<C-y> "+y
" Paste from the system clipboard.
nnoremap <C-p> "+p
vnoremap <C-p> "+p
cnoremap<C-p> "+p
What's the best way to replicate this with Evil?
Question #2:
Evil provides the following function:
(evil-define-command evil-window-new (count file)
"Splits the current window horizontally
and opens a new buffer or edits a certain FILE."
:repeat nil
(interactive "P<f>")
(split-window (selected-window) count)
(if file
(evil-edit file)
(let ((buffer (generate-new-buffer "*new*")))
(set-window-buffer (selected-window) buffer)
(with-current-buffer buffer
(evil-normal-state)))))
In my opinion the last line reveals a huge flaw.
First of all, recently I've been writing a tiling window manager for Emacs.
Of course when I create new windows there, I create buffers as well with
the same
generate-new-buffer
function.
And of course as suggested by the
evil-window-new
function presented above, one has to call
(with-current-buffer buffer (evil-normal-state))
so that Evil does not break here and works properly in this newly
created buffer.
That's incredibly annoying for 2 reasons.
First, now, for instance, my tiling window manager has to depend on the
Evil package just to make this little hack for those who wish to use
Evil with my tiling window manager (including myself).
Second, you have already probably noticed that such buffers as Emacs
Help and friends do not work with Evil properly.
And I suspect that the reason for that is the same simply because in
case of Emacs Help buffer you could no longer inject this hackish call:
(with-current-buffer buffer (evil-normal-state))
I might be wrong with my implications, and I wish you could prove that I am.
I'm nowhere near an Emacs hacker, just learning (migrating from Vim),
but may I say that defadvice to me seems to be a remedy to this problem?
Anyway, please, share your thoughts on this topic, I really hope that
this can somehow be reimplemented in more robust way, so that Evil has
more seamless and natural integration with the whole Emacs environment.
Kind regards,
Haroogan
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