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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: 35257@debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Sockwell <daniel@codesections.com>
Subject: bug#35257: eshell and xclip
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:51:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y34c3aji.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ef641ym8.fsf@gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Sun, 14 Apr 2019 09:54:07 -0400")

On Apr 14 2019, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:

> With eshell bugs, it's often a good idea to reproduce the issue with
> some plain lisp calls (if possible).  The simplest way to call external
> processes from Emacs is with call-process:
>
>     (progn (with-temp-file "/tmp/foo"
>              (insert "foo"))
>            (call-process "xclip" "/tmp/foo" '(t t) t "-i"))
>
> But that just hangs until C-g.

This is because xclip forks a background process that holds the
selection.  With eshell, that background process is killed immediately
(due to its lack of job control), so the selection is lost.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-14 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-13 11:41 bug#35257: eshell and xclip Daniel Sockwell
2019-04-14 13:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-14 14:51   ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-04-16  0:41     ` Noam Postavsky
2019-04-19 19:26       ` Noam Postavsky

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