Re: X11 cut and paste lovers
Re: X11 cut and paste lovers
- Subject: Re: X11 cut and paste lovers
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:16:55 -0700
At 09:58 -0600 11/27/03, Keith Esau wrote:
>That is because the clipboard is not involved--this is not copy and paste.
Changing the topic a bit, can someone explain the difference between the clipboard and the pasteboard?
Do pbcopy and pbpaste work with the clipboard in spite of their names?
Somewhere, and I think it was in some Next Step documentation, I got the impression that the pasteboard was the current selection even though no "copy" request had been made. It seems to be associated with the ability of a service to access a selection and do something with it.
Can one get at the current selection in X11 from a service?
Classic has the "desk scrap" and the "clipboard". The scrap was known only to the running application but whenever a process switch occurred the app was required to place the data on the "real" clipboard. That's what makes it possible for a spreadsheet to remember only the selected locations rather than making an actual copy of cell contents.
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