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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] mouseless

On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:57:55 -0400, Bart Trojanowski wrote:
> * Bart Trojanowski <bart-oclug [ at ] jukie [ dot ] net> [070502 12:24]:
> > There is only one thing that I am stuck selecting text in right now, and
> > that's an xterm.  I hope to get that fixed by switching to urxvt and
> > writing some perl plugins.  I am trying to get Dave O'Neill to write
> > this for me, since he is a perl guru :)
> 
> I wrote a prototype script that does what I described earlier... grabs
> anything that looks like an URL from a urxvt terminal.
> 
>         http://www.jukie.net/~bart/blog/urxvt-url-yank
> 
> I took a few shortcuts, so I will have to fix them at some point.
> First, it only sees one URL per line.  Second, I don't use X selections
> but fiddle with the reverse-video to higlight the URL as it's being
> selected.  Third, I didn't know how to select text from perl, so I have
> this evil hack:
> 
>         system ("echo $text | xclip -i");
 
I can't seem to access your blog, but FWIW is this useful?
http://search.cpan.org/~king/Clipboard-0.09/lib/Clipboard.pm

E.g.
$ perl -e'use Clipboard; Clipboard->copy("abc"); print Clipboard->paste,"\n"'
abc

Joe


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