Bug#909474: xterm: cannot copy to both CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> hmm - no. This is "wishlist".
It would be if this were a completely new thing, a feature request.
But why would xterm allow binding different clipboards (cut buffers,
PRIMARY, SECONDARY, CLIPBOARD) to different copy/paste key/mouse
bindings if it did not support having multiple of them at the same time?
> selection. But using both at the same time was never intended (and
> consequently there is no discussion of that in the manual).
>
> Changing that would be a feature request.
See above, but then, please treat it as a feature request.
> For either primary or clipboard, xterm has only one source-buffer which
> it uses to satisfy requests for selection content. That's been the case
That’s not good.
My use case is this: in xterm, select two things (one to CLIPBOARD,
one to PRIMARY), then switch to a GUI application, and insert them
into different places. This greatly speeds up things, and from a
GUI application as sender, it already works (mark stuff, ^C, mark
other stuff, switch to receiving application).
Perhaps does this explain it better?
bye,
//mirabilos
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