Re: Stumped by pasting to another application in linux

[Emanuel Berg]

Bill Rising wrote:

> I've been getting very vexed by
> the following.
>
> Goal: Take the clipboard contents and paste
> them into another application by using
> a shell script called by Emacs, followed by
> a Return. finally the paste of the text.

OK, so what application is it? Sure there isn't
a counterpart in Emacs which you not only can,
but *want* to migrate to, since it is probably
much better anyway and will solve all
integration issues implicitly?

If not, you can use this for X and Linux VTs
(if X is running at the same time):

    http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/xsel.el

In the [M]ELPAs, there is an almost identical
file but that uses xclip instead xsel.

That makes sense, as xclip is a "command line
interface to X selections" while xsel is
a "command-line tool to access X clipboard" :)

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