Re: NonGNU ELPA

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

>> ;;; DWIM: If there is a region, replace it with the
>> ;;; X clipboard.
>> ;;;
>> ;;; Feature: Set the X clipboard programmatically in Elisp or
>> ;;; set it interactively to the contents of the region (if
>> ;;; there is one), otherwise set it to the most recent
>> ;;; Emacs kill.
>> ;;;
>> ;;; Use $DISPLAY or ":0" with xsel(1x).
>
> Sounds similar to GNU ELPA's `xclip.el`.
> Any chance the two could be merged?

Don't know but if you say so ... so, okay?

Don't know if/how much the base shell tools differ either,
xclip(1) and xsel(1x), maybe the Elisp solutions are
interface-exchangeable even.

$ sudo aptitude more xclip xsel
i   xclip - command line interface to X selections
i   xsel  - command-line tool to access X clipboard a

$ xclip -version
  xclip version 0.13
  Copyright (C) 2001-2008 Kim Saunders et al.
  Distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL

$ xsel --version
  xsel version 1.2.0 by Conrad Parker <conrad@vergenet.net>

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