Re: Trying to get clipboard into paste buffer

[David Woodfall]

On Thursday 31 May 2018 14:12,
Amadeusz Sławiński <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> On Wed, 30 May 2018 23:46:44 +0100
> David Woodfall <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I'm using the following bind to get the x clipboard into the paste
> > buffer and then paste it:
> >
> > bind P eval 'exec sh -c "xsel -n -o -b > /tmp/screen-exchange"' 'readbuf' 
> > 'paste .'
> >
> > There seems to be some kind of timing problem, because readbuf seems
> > to execute before xsel has pasted and pastes the old contents of
> > screen-exchange. If I execute it twice, it works as it should.
> >
> > If I just have the xsel command it does copy into screen-exchange so
> > I know that that's working, and I can then run 'c-a < c-a ]' and it
> > works that way too.
> >
> > I tried adding a sleep command in there but it didn't make any
> > difference.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to get this working?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> You are under wrong impression that exec should be used to run commands.
> It is complicated way to run "filter" windows which perform redirects
> between filter command, window file descriptors and display file
> descriptors.
> While as side effect it probably does a bit of what you expect (ie. runs
> the shell command) it's rather bad way to do this.
>
> If anything I would look for some program that monitor clipboard for
> changes and writes to /tmp/screen-exchange independently of screen
> and just bind readbuf.
>
> But as you said in other mail, you can just paste directly into screen
> with mouse or terminal.
>
> Cheers,
> Amadeusz

Thanks for the info. I hadn't read the 'exec' section of the manual
before, but I see what you mean now.

-Dave

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