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Re: Sending a region to another X application
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Buchs, Kevin J. |
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Re: Sending a region to another X application |
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Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:33:56 -0500 |
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Dieter,
This is more of a general programming question than an emacs one, so you
might want to target me off list if you have follow-up questions. Having
some experience with TCL, I know that often a command shell is just a
TCL shell with functions defined for the commands you execute. If you
have such a situation, you can extend that shell with some code that can
accept commands from a network connection, pipe, or even via the X
clipboard. If you have created a major mode in emacs, you know enough to
know that you can talk to these communication channels from emacs lisp
without too much work. Extending the TCL shell is your major task.
As for using X-Window, I've not heard of such a thing done for
inter-application communication, but I suppose it is possible. You want
to generate X events for the keystrokes. It would take some work, so
think books when you are looking for documentation. Maybe some open
source GUI testing program could give you some pointers. I wouldn't
choose to go this route, however.
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On 08/21/2014 11:00 AM, help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org wrote:
Sending a region to another X application