Re: gui-get

[Emanuel Berg]

Po Lu wrote:

>> (gui-get-selection 'primary)
>> (gui-get-selection 'secondary)
>> (gui-get-selection 'clipboard)
>
> gui-get-selection uses the X selection names. So you should
> be doing:
>
>   (gui-get-selection 'PRIMARY)
>   (gui-get-selection 'SECONDARY)
>   (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD)

OK, thanks, but the are still all nil.

Now xsel(1x) and xclip(1) started to work tho ... what did
you do? :O

$ DISPLAY=":0" xsel -o
the truth is out there

As does xsel.el [1] - sweet ... no idea why or why the
`gui-get-selection' don't work.

[1] https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/xsel.le

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