Subject: RE: Redirect to Clipboard
From: Ferwerda Darren (app3dxf) (app3dxf@ups.com)
Date: Thu Mar 14 2002 - 06:27:21 MST
How would it work?
I have never seen a NeXT system let alone worked on one. Would you have to
call the copy program first, and then call the application? So that the
program first redirects stdio to the requisite spots first, then the program
calls the redirected stdio? That should be a very easy program to write.
Just have a little program to alias stdio to the clipboard. Should be able
to do this either by shm or via a pipe possibly. If someone could refresh
my memory as to the interface for the X clipboard, I would appreciate it. I
have not done X programming in a LONG time.
Seems like a really cool idea though, better than having to force the copy,
and then reformat everytime you have to paste it somewhere.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Nelson [mailto:john@computation.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:24 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: Redirect to Clipboard
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.
-- John
Ferwerda Darren (app3dxf) wrote:
>There is no easy way that I know of. You can redirect the output to a
file,
>then open up emacs or another text editor and copy it that way. Or you
>should be able to just let the output go to the gnome-terminal output, and
>copy it from there. Not nice, or easy, but no OS I know of can copy
>directly from the CLUI to the GUI. I may be mistaken, so if I am, flame
>away. :)
>
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