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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: richard.shann@virgin.net
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Getting the (text) selection from the clipboard
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:22:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763euec0k.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245272804.2949.112.camel@debianrts.home> (Richard Shann's message of "Wed\, 17 Jun 2009 22\:06\:44 +0100")

Richard Shann <richard.shann@virgin.net> writes:

> Does anyone know if there is a guile procedure to get the (text)
> selection? (That is from doing Copy in another application)
> Richard

I assume you mean in the X sense.

In core Guile: no.  But maybe guile-gtk or guile-gnome might expose an
equivalent Gtk+ API?

(There is also guile-xlib, which might theoretically be a good place
for this; but in practice it doesn't provide any selection APIs.)

Regards,
        Neil




  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-17 21:06 Getting the (text) selection from the clipboard Richard Shann
2009-06-17 22:22 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
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2009-06-18 18:09 Richard Shann
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2009-06-20 11:18 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen

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