Re: pushing a string in the cut&paste stack

["Giulio Bottazzi" <giulio.bottazzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/16/07, Andy Spiegl <zsh.Andy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Giulio,
>
> > I would like to know how can I push a string in the cut&paste stack of
> > zle. In practice, I would like to have a shell function, name it
> > "copythis", such that
> >
> > >copythis "blabla"
>
> Maybe I am overlooking something obvious but why don't you just "kill" the
> blabla with alt-d?  Then it's in the killring for later usage.  Typing
> copythis and quotes seems a lot more complicated to me.

Hi Andy,
you are right, my example was silly :-)  I choose it only for
simplicity. Actually I'm going to use Peter's suggestion to put the
output of a program in the shell killring, something like

myprogram | copythis

of course in this case copythis should be something like

copythis() { copy_this=`cat -` }

But if you know a better mechanism to do the same, I'm eager to learn!

Ciao,
Giulio.

P.S.: In any case, what about

copythis "bla $TERM bla"

?


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