set-selection Function

Summary

Sets the primary selection.

Package

capi

Signature

set-selection self value &optional string plist => result

Arguments

Values

Description

The function set-selection sets the primary selection associated with self.

If string is non-nil, then the text of the primary selection is set to string. If string is nil and value is a string, then text of the primary selection is set to value. Otherwise, no text is set for the primary selection.

In addition, value is made available within the local Lisp image when calling selection.

plist is a plist of additional format/value pairs to export to the primary selection. The currently supported formats are as described for selection. You can export more than one format simultaneously.

On Microsoft Windows there is no notion of selection, so this mechanism is internal to Lisp.

Note that X applications may or may not use the primary selection for their paste operations. The most likely explanation for apparent inconsistencies after set-selection is that the pasting application does not use the primary selection. For instance, Emacs is configurable by the variable interprogram-paste-function.

See also

selection
set-clipboard
18.6 Clipboard