From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Getting the (text) selection from the clipboard Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:22:35 +0100 Message-ID: <8763euec0k.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <1245272804.2949.112.camel@debianrts.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245277373 5113 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2009 22:22:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:22:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: richard.shann@virgin.net Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 18 00:22:49 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MH3Wp-0006ZS-R5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:22:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53553 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3Wo-0004lo-Tz for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3Wl-0004lh-NU for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3Wg-0004jX-3c for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59954 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MH3Wg-0004jU-01 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:37107) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MH3Wf-0001a6-Ic for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-152-99-133.range86-152.btcentralplus.com [86.152.99.133]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625661F9896; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:22:36 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7286938021; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:22:35 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <1245272804.2949.112.camel@debianrts.home> (Richard Shann's message of "Wed\, 17 Jun 2009 22\:06\:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:7329 Archived-At: Richard Shann 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