Read data from clipboard managers at Linux and Mac,

• Parcellite on Linux
• ClipIt on Linux
• Flycut on Mac

The easiest way is install from melpa using package manager.

If you install from source code, please place cliphist.el somewhere (say ~/.emacs/lisp), and insert below code into ~/.emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp/")
(require 'cliphist)

Make sure the clipboard manager is running.

If you use Flycut on macOS, set up “Preferences > General > Clippings” so its value is “Save After each clip”.

• M-x cliphist-paste-item to paste item from history. C-u M-x cliphist-paste-item rectangle paste item
• M-x cliphist-select-item to select item

You can customize the behavior of cliphist-select-item,

(setq cliphist-select-item-callback
      (lambda (num str) (cliphist-copy-to-clipboard str)))

If `cliphist-cc-kill-ring` is true, the selected/pasted string will be inserted into kill-ring.

(setq cliphist-cc-kill-ring t)

You can tweak cliphist-linux-clipboard-managers to tell cliphist how to detect clipboard manager,

(setq cliphist-linux-clipboard-managers '("clipit" "parcellite"))

Check https://github.com/redguardtoo/cliphist.

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