On 2012-12-05, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Hi Antoine, > > Xterm supports pasting from the ordinary clipboard, not just from the > primary selection buffer. Consult the documentation -- it's in there > somewhere. Let me know what you find.
xterm does support it, it's an xresource that flips it to use only the clipboard, but i prefer *not* to use the clipboard in xterm. > That said, I understand some neckbearded types of folks love the > traditional X11 flow of middle-clicking and selecting all over the > place, the same kind of genius that goes wild with Plan 9's Acme > editor. Those types of people are likely to not really care for the > other mode, nor really be altering back and forth between middle-click > and ctrl+v, so I don't think having a command line switch is useful. > Rather, I had in mind exactly what Brian provided -- a simple > environment variable that you could set in your So I guess I consider myself one of those freakish neckbeards. :P And since copying to clipboard is already a commandline option, how about simply adding a *separate* one to copy to the primary selection? Seems to me that the two features could simply be orthogonal. I'd be willing to roll a patch for that... Thanks, A. -- Antoine Beaupré +++ Réseau Koumbit Networks +++ +1.514.387.6262 #208 --------------------------------------------------------------------
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