Re: X clipboard
Artur Skonecki <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user |
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| Message-ID | <alpine.DEB.2.00.1202200947080.13621@cvops> |
bufferfile "$HOME/.screen-exchange" # a keybinding for quick xsel bind > eval 'writebuf' 'exec sh -c "< $HOME/.screen-exchange xsel -i -p"' 'echo "Copybuffer written to $HOME/.screen-exchange and to clipboard"' On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Axel Beckert wrote: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:23:05PM +0100, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: >> is it possible to copy a text selection to the X clipboard? Right now >> I'm copying text and piping it into xsel, which works but is a bit >> cumbersome, some kind of wrapper or macro would be handy. > > "writebuf" can write the contents of the paste buffer to a specified > file. > > With xsel, xclip, xcb and friends and maybe a shell script which runs > several 'screen -X' commands in a row and a key bound to executing > that shell script should be possible. Maybe screen's eval command can > also help.