Re: Trying to get clipboard into paste buffer

[David Woodfall]

On Wednesday 30 May 2018 23:46,
Dave Woodfall <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> 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?

I guess the simple way is just paste it directly.

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