如何在不覆盖剪贴板的情况下在Emacs Evil-Mode中复制文本？

Question

This post described how to do it in Vim, where one prefixes their copy command with " + <register name> (ie k ). How can I do this in Emacs Evil-Mode?

For example, I tried the following:

• yy - copy first line to clipboard
• jjj - move to some new line
• "kyy - copy second line to register k
• Move to my new region
• p - paste first line
• "kp - paste second line

However, at p , Emacs pastes my second line, as if the register was ignored and copied directly to the clipboard. Any suggestions on how to use Vim-like registers? If not, any suggestions on how to copy and paste multiple regions in Evil-Mode?

Answer 1

I think setting this value will do it:

(setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil)

Using evil (in spacemacs), "+y still copies to clipboard, so I think that should work.

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If not, this blog post describes a more verbose method: Write handlers for all ways you can delete to avoid touching the clipboard and rebind keys to use these handlers.

Answer 2

This is 100% the solution, if you're spacemacs and probably otherwise:

(fset 'evil-visual-update-x-selection 'ignore)

Credit to: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/15054/8377

Answer 3

It behaves similarly in vim. Numerical registers get overwritten no matter what register you intended to use. Running your examples in both Emacs (w/ evil of course) and Vim I get the k register filled up correctly and under register 0 , the most recent yank that happens to be the same as in k .