Re: using the x clipboard cut/paste functions from an xterm

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:43:28PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Price <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>     Matt> Again, I'm working from an xterm, not from a regular xemacs
>     Matt> window.
> 
> Then you're out of luck: you need a connection to the X server under
> program control.  xterm has a connection, but isn't programmable in
> this way and the xterm manpage doesn't mention the clipboard; xemacs
> is Turing-complete, but has no X connection.  You could open a frame
> on the relevant X server from your xterm, or open a tty frame in the
> xterm using gnuclient, then this should work:
> 
I do use gnuclient in xterms, just with the -nw switch...  is that
what you mean?  

> (defun copy-to-clipboard (s e)
>   (interactive "r")
>   (own-selection (buffer-substring s e) 'CLIPBOARD))
> 
tried this -- it does copy the selection to the clipboard, but, oddly
enough, it ends up way down the clipboard list -- instead of being the
current clipboard ocntents, it ends up as the 5th in line or so. This
is true whether I execute the command in a graphical frame or an xterm
window using gnuclient.  This is very different from the interaction
of x and graphical Xemacs frames around yanking -- in a graphical
frame, when I C-w a region, it gets put in the active clipboard --
that is, number 1.  

still, its a help.  Unfortunately I don't read elisp well enough to
really tell what's going on -- what does the (s e) mean, for instance?
(start and end, maybe?)  Any thoughts on how to make it behave exactly
how I want -- and also on how to yank the current x-clipboard *into* a
gnuclient session (run from an xterm)?

thanks as alwyas,
matt

 

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