Homepage: https://github.com/Lindydancer/highlight2clipboard
Author: Anders Lindgren
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Copy text to clipboard with highlighting
Support for copying text with formatting information, like color, to the system clipboard. Concretely, this allows you to paste syntax highlighted source code into word processors and mail editors. On MS-Windows, Ruby must be installed. Usage: * `M-x highlight2clipboard-copy-region-to-clipboard RET' -- Copy the region, with formatting, to the clipboard. * `M-x highlight2clipboard-copy-buffer-to-clipboard RET' -- Copy the buffer, with formatting, to the clipboard. * Highlight2clipboard mode -- Global minor mode, when enabled, all copies and cuts are exported, with formatting information, to the clipboard. Supported systems: Copying formatted text to the clipboard is highly system specific. Currently, Mac OS X and MS-Windows are supported. Contributions for other systems are most welcome. Known problems: Font Lock mode, the system providing syntax highlighting in Emacs, use "lazy highlighting". Effectively, this mean that only the visible parts of a buffer are highlighted. The problem with this is that when copying text to the clipboard, only the highlighted parts gets formatting information. To get around this, walk through the buffer, use `highlight2clipboard-ensure-buffer-is-fontified', or use one of the `highlight2clipboard-copy-' functions. This package generates some temporary files, which it does not remove. It is assumed that the system temporary directory is cleaned from time to time. Implementation: This package use the package `htmlize' to create an HTML version of a highlighted text. This is added as a new flavor to the clipboard, allowing an application to pick the most suited version.