Re: Trying to get clipboard into paste buffer

[Amadeusz Sławiński]

On Wed, 30 May 2018 23:46:44 +0100
David Woodfall <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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?
> 

Hi,

You are under wrong impression that exec should be used to run commands.
It is complicated way to run "filter" windows which perform redirects
between filter command, window file descriptors and display file
descriptors.
While as side effect it probably does a bit of what you expect (ie. runs
the shell command) it's rather bad way to do this.

If anything I would look for some program that monitor clipboard for
changes and writes to /tmp/screen-exchange independently of screen
and just bind readbuf.

But as you said in other mail, you can just paste directly into screen
with mouse or terminal.

Cheers,
Amadeusz