From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: NonGNU ELPA Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:32:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87fspgsrk5.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87czku1hon.fsf@gnu.org> <87sftpx5ja.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <874k63auq8.fsf@zoho.eu> <87iluh7mrv.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4510"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:C04h306rryOLPbbkBBkm/ds88iw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 21 22:43:42 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nB1h7-0000uq-P0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:43:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50160 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB1h6-0005uQ-Lk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB1We-0007Ro-E6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:45682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB1Wc-0003pZ-Pd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 16:32:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nB1Wa-0007F3-W3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 22:32:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135488 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >> Don't know if/how much the base shell tools differ either, >> xclip(1) and xsel(1x), maybe the Elisp solutions are >> interface-exchangeable even. > > I strongly recommend looking at `xclip.el` before going any > further, because opinions derived just from the name of > a package tend to be rather ... brittle. :) But this is an interesting situation. There are two Linux tools. Should there be one Elisp package that works with either, or should there be one for each? Yeah, I'll look into it ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal