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: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 04:20:20 +0100 Message-ID: <87iluh7mrv.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87czku1hon.fsf@gnu.org> <87sftpx5ja.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> <874k63auq8.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="3786"; 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:KqKx8BzOsLS/2T1HpBavdI/S6fU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 18 04:21:11 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 1n9f3X-0000lD-Fw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2022 04:21:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39810 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9f3W-0008NO-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:21:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35246) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9f2u-0008ND-Ug for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:46784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n9f2s-0003Sd-9v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n9f2p-000AUX-Oi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2022 04:20:27 +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:135409 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: >> ;;; DWIM: If there is a region, replace it with the >> ;;; X clipboard. >> ;;; >> ;;; Feature: Set the X clipboard programmatically in Elisp or >> ;;; set it interactively to the contents of the region (if >> ;;; there is one), otherwise set it to the most recent >> ;;; Emacs kill. >> ;;; >> ;;; Use $DISPLAY or ":0" with xsel(1x). > > Sounds similar to GNU ELPA's `xclip.el`. > Any chance the two could be merged? Don't know but if you say so ... so, okay? 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. $ sudo aptitude more xclip xsel i xclip - command line interface to X selections i xsel - command-line tool to access X clipboard a $ xclip -version xclip version 0.13 Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Kim Saunders et al. Distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL $ xsel --version xsel version 1.2.0 by Conrad Parker -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal