Re: Redirect to Clipboard

Subject: Re: Redirect to Clipboard
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 22:06:04 MST


"copy" and "paste" were two programs that took stdin.... so you could pipe the output of a program into copy and it would be in the clipboard.  Then you pasted the clipboard into whereever.  The X way isn't cool because it isn't always possible to use the mouse to copy ALL of the text which might be very lengthy and maybe it's unmousable.

No... the NeXTStep way rocked.

But what's this about multiple copy/paste selections in X?  Maybe you should flame me about that?

-- John


Robert Brandtjen wrote:
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 06:24 pm, John Nelson wrote:
Yup you're mistaken so here's your flame... :-)

NeXTStep/OpenStep supported two applications "copy" and "paste" which
direted stdin to the clipboard.  A VERY handy pair of programs which I
would like to see on all Linux systems.

Are you saying it output directly to the clipboard without having to do a 
copy paste seperately? I mean in X, all you have to do is "copy" it to get it 
into the clipboard, plus, you can make multiple copy actions.

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