On 3/24/07, James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>
> Is there a way during pasting to suppress the screen output?
There is a program, xclip, that you may want to look at.
Freshmeat calls it
A command line interface to X server selection
You have to compile it yourself, but it's not hard:
- download the latest vesion (eg, xclip-0.08.tar.gz) some work location,
such as /tmp, your desktop or wherever, from
http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/
- untar with
xzf xclip-0.08.tar.gz
- then do these:
cd xclip
xmkmf
make
sudo make install
sudo make install.man
That's all. Most of it is explained in the included 'INSTALL' file.
Don't be put off by the low version number. It's a simple program that
seems to do (at least it's simplest tasks) ok.
I encourage you to also read the 'README' file.
Hey this is neat stuff. I remember something similar with NeXTstep
many years ago.
Select with the cursor in some window, xclip -o > /tmp/foo in a
command line, and the text is magically there in /tmp/foo. No muss,
no fuss, no dirty hands. And no filling up of your window with the
text that you didn't really want to see again.
Definitely a keeper.
carl
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