Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:04:34AM +0000, Dave Selby wrote:
> When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the
> middle mouse button.
>
> Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very
> usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes Xterm
> is not ideal because it ceases when the user is changed. The same goes for
> the GUI !
>
> Yep I am thinking of downloading long files via wget !
>
Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
Consult man pages XFetchBuffer(3x), XStoreBuffer(3x) to learn how to
manipulate the cut & paste buffer in X.
--timball
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