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altw: an RStudio addin to copy selection to clipboard

In my installation of RStudio, even with Emacs keybindings, I was not able to use M-w (i.e., Alt-W) for copying.

In the Tools | Modify Keyboard Shortcuts... menu, it is not possible to bind keys to the copy command.

C-w and C-y work fine for killing and yanking, respectively.

altw is an RStudio addin to copy the current selection to the clipboard.

If there are multiple selections in the active document (made with multiple cursors), the altw concatenates them with \n as the separator before copying.

As any addin, it can be bound to a keyboard shortcut.

Now I can use M-w to copy text to the clipboard, as in Emacs.

Installation

You can install altw from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("fnaufel/altw")

After installation, go to the Tools | Addins | Browse Addins... menu, find altw, select it, and click on Keyboard shortcuts to bind it to your favorite key.

Dependencies

This addin uses the great clipr package.

If you're using any distribution of GNU-Linux with X11, you need to have the xclip program installed.

fnaufel/altw documentation built on April 16, 2022, 3:05 p.m.