Add cliphist to the xclipboard layer.

CHANGELOG.develop

@@ -2598,6 +2598,10 @@ Other:
   (thanks to Voleking)
 **** Xclipboard
 - Added Requirements documentation (thanks to Chris Glass)
+- Added =cliphist= with the following bindings: (thanks to Hong Xu)
+  - ~SPC x P~ paste item from history (cliphist must be enabled)
+  - ~SPC x R~ rectangly paste item from history (cliphist must be enabled)
+  - ~SPC x s~ select item from history (cliphist must be enabled)
 **** Ycmd
 - Search for =compile_commands.json= in build sub-directory
   (thanks to Amos Bird and Eivind Fonn)

layers/+tools/xclipboard/README.org

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 - [[#description][Description]]
   - [[#features][Features:]]
 - [[#requirements][Requirements]]
+- [[#usage][Usage]]
+  - [[#clipboard-manager-integration][Clipboard Manager Integration]]
 - [[#key-bindings][Key bindings]]
 
 * Description
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@
 ** Features:
 - adds copy support to the X-clipboard from the terminal.
 - adds paste support to the X-clipboard from the terminal.
+- [[https://github.com/redguardtoo/cliphist][cliphist]] package: integration with clipboard managers on Linux and Mac.
 
 * Requirements
 This layer depends on a few platform-specific command-line tools:
@@ -23,9 +26,23 @@ This layer depends on a few platform-specific command-line tools:
 
 Note that =xsel= might not be installed by default on e.g. Ubuntu systems.
 
+Clipboard manager integration requires [[http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/][Parcellite]] or [[https://github.com/CristianHenzel/ClipIt][ClipIt]] installed on Linux
+and [[https://github.com/TermiT/Flycut][Flycut]] installed on MacOS.
+
+* Usage
+** Clipboard Manager Integration
+    Clipboard manager integration can be enabled by setting =xclipboard-enable-cliphist= to =t=.
+    #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+      dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(
+        (xclipboard :variables xclipboard-enable-cliphist t))
+    #+END_SRC
+
 * Key bindings
 
-| Key binding | Description                                 |
-|-------------+---------------------------------------------|
-| ~SPC x p~   | Paste clipboard contents at cursor position |
-| ~SPC x y~   | Copy selection to clipboard                 |
+| Key binding | Description                                                  |
+|-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------|
+| ~SPC x p~   | Paste clipboard contents at cursor position                  |
+| ~SPC x y~   | Copy selection to clipboard                                  |
+| ~SPC x P~   | paste item from history (cliphist must be enabled)           |
+| ~SPC x R~   | rectangly paste item from history (cliphist must be enabled) |
+| ~SPC x s~   | select item from history (cliphist must be enabled)          |

layers/+tools/xclipboard/config.el

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+;;; config.el --- xclipboard configuration File for Spacemacs
+;;
+;; Copyright (c) 2012-2019 Sylvain Benner & Contributors
+;;
+;; Author: Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net>
+;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
+;;
+;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
+;;
+;;; License: GPLv3
+
+;; Variables
+
+(defvar xclipboard-enable-cliphist nil
+  "If non-nil, cliphist is enabled.")

layers/+tools/xclipboard/funcs.el

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+;;; funcs.el --- xclipboard layer functions file for Spacemacs.
+;;
+;; Copyright (c) 2012-2019 Sylvain Benner & Contributors
+;;
+;; Author: Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net>
+;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
+;;
+;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
+;;
+;;; License: GPLv3
+
+(defun spacemacs/xclipboard-cliphist-paste-item-rectangle ()
+  (interactive)
+  (cliphist-paste-item 1))

layers/+tools/xclipboard/packages.el

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 ;;; packages.el --- xclipboard layer packages file for Spacemacs.
 ;;
-;; Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Sylvain Benner & Contributors
+;; Copyright (c) 2012-2019 Sylvain Benner & Contributors
 ;;
 ;; Authors: Charles Weill <weill@google.com>
 ;;          Google LLC.
+;;          Hong Xu <hong@topbug.net>
 ;; URL: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
 ;;
 ;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
@@ -13,8 +14,18 @@
 (defconst xclipboard-packages
   '(
     (spacemacs-xclipboard :location local)
+    (cliphist :requires ivy
+              :toggle xclipboard-enable-cliphist)
     ))
 
+(defun xclipboard/init-cliphist ()
+  (use-package cliphist
+    :init (spacemacs/set-leader-keys
+            "xP" 'cliphist-paste-item
+            "xR" 'spacemacs/xclipboard-cliphist-paste-item-rectangle
+            "xs" 'cliphist-select-item)
+    :config (setq cliphist-cc-kill-ring t)))
+
 (defun xclipboard/init-spacemacs-xclipboard ()
   (use-package spacemacs-xclipboard
     :init (spacemacs/set-leader-keys