wgetpaste.el

A small Emacs library to use wgetpaste from inside of Emacs.

basic use

Just run the interactive wgetpaste command in the minibuffer or via keybinding in a buffer of choice, with or without a region selected. The paste’s URL will copied to the kill-ring and/or system clipboard if the upload is successful. A minibuffer notification will appear when the upload is ready!

customization hooks

Wgetpaste.el hooks can allow you to customize the behaviour of wgetpaste based on the state of your buffer.

Here is an example to set the syntax highlighting to “Python” on files that have the “py” file extension.

(add-hook 'wgetpaste-before-upload-hook (lambda ()
                                          (if-let* ((file-name (buffer-file-name))
                                                    (string= (file-name-extension file-name) "py"))
                                              (setq-local wgetpaste-args '("--language" "Python"))))
          nil t)

Only some wgetpaste services support syntax highlighting, and some services have different names for the various syntax highlighting modes.