Thanks, Steve. Good to know that something works under MacOS.
Unfortunately, I get nothing to the Windows clipboard with your 2-engine
method, which was the problem that started this thread. (Also, my
application does not need an infinite Julia loop: I can just surround the
code to be executed with output redirection Julia commands - if ever they
would work.)
On Thursday, July 3, 2014 2:48:57 PM UTC-6, Steven G. Johnson wrote:
>
> It works for me on MacOS. e.g. putting the code below into a file
> capture.jl, then running
> julia capture.jl
> I can then type e.g. display("foo") and "foo" gets included in the text
> copied to the clipboard.
>
> #####################################################
> const orig_STDOUT = STDOUT
> rdstdout, wrstdout = redirect_stdout()
> pushdisplay(TextDisplay(STDOUT))
>
> while true
> try
> result = eval(Base.parse_input_line(STDIN))
> println("RESULT = ", result)
> catch e
> print("EXCEPTION = ")
> Base.showerror(STDOUT, e)
> end
> s = readavailable(rdstdout)
> clipboard(s)
> print(orig_STDOUT, s)
> end
>
>
