Re: wild X internals selection question

On Feb 8, 3:02 pm, Tom Horsley <tomhors...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just a hypothetical question for a reactionary stick-in-the-mud
X11 user who wishes no one had ever thought of inventing
CLIPBOARD in addition to PRIMARY:

Would it be possible to invent a mechanism (possibly an X server
extension?) to effectively alias the two selections? Any app
that set PRIMARY would simultaneously set CLIPBOARD and vice-versa.

Maybe assign the interned CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY names the
same atom value? :-).

Is there already a way and I just don't know about it?

Just curious... (not interested in a debate or flame war about
the value of two selections - just assume my brain is broken,
and pity me, OK? :-).

Ok, I'll pity you.

Why would anyone want what you propose? How would I do this:
I highlight a word or phrase that I want to use as replacement text,
then place that in the clipboard (vie CtrlC, for example). Then
I go to the text I want to replace, highlight that, then copy from
the clipboard (via CtrlV, for example).

Using your scenario, this happens:
I highlight the replacement text (it becomes the PRIMARY).
I go to the text that I want to replace and highlight it.
OOPS - that now becomes the PRIMARY, and I can't
perform the replacement, since the replacement text
has just been lost!

--
Fred Kleinschmdit
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