Function: x-set-selection

x-set-selection is a and interactive for gui-set-selection, defined in select.el.gz.

This command is obsolete since 25.1; use gui-set-selection instead.

Signature

(x-set-selection TYPE DATA)

Documentation

Make an X selection of type TYPE and value DATA.

The argument TYPE (nil means PRIMARY) says which selection, and DATA specifies the contents. TYPE must be a symbol. (It can also be a string, which stands for the symbol with that name, but this
is considered obsolete.) DATA may be a string, a symbol, an
integer (or a cons of two integers or list of two integers).

The selection may also be a cons of two markers pointing to the same buffer, or an overlay. In these cases, the selection is considered to be the text between the markers *at whatever time the selection is examined*. Thus, editing done in the buffer after you specify the selection can alter the effective value of the selection.

The data may also be a vector of valid non-vector selection values.

The return value is DATA.

Interactively, this command sets the primary selection. Without prefix argument, it reads the selection in the minibuffer. With prefix argument, it uses the text of the region as the selection value.

Note that on MS-Windows, primary and secondary selections set by Emacs are not available to other programs.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 25.1.

Key Bindings

Aliases

x-set-selection (obsolete since 25.1) evil-set-selection