Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> I verified it using xclip -o and od.
>
> wooledg:~$ xclip -o | od -tx1 -An
> 78 78 4e 31 79 0d 0a 7a 7a 71 6e 0d 0a 66 6f 6f
> 20 62 61 72 20 62 61 7a 0d 0a
>
> As you can see, xclip is definitely retaining the carriage returns
> and newlines.
>
> I suspect your problem
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 04:36:48PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> the problem is that the file is one item per line
> and the file is your basic utf8 or ascii like text
> file with [cr][lf]:
>
> $ od -c list-alpha
> 000 a c o n i t e \r \n a l f a l f a
> 020 \r
songbird (12019-10-30):
> pasting into a terminal may work just fine. open up a blog
> post or something on a website and it may or may not work.
This is exactly what I did, and it worked. Your analysis of the problem
is not correct.
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Your subject header says,
> "Subject: Re: firefox pasting using xclip replaces line ends with spaces"
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> I am reporting that here, because your email body does not say what
> the problem is, and there's no telling how the Subject header will be
> altered as the threa
songbird (12019-10-30):
> pastes this when i try to use it:
> aconite alfalfa alliums (blue, purple) asters (purple, white) astibile (red)
> babies breath bachelor buttons baptisia beans (...a lot...) bearded irises
> (dark purple, purple, lavender,...
You neglected to say why you consider this
Nicolas George wrote:
> songbird (12019-10-30):
...
>> # did not work
>> $ xclip -selection clip-board -i list-alpha=20
>
> It did work. It just used the selection called "clip-board" instead of
> "clipboard".
# does not work
$ xclip -selection clipboard -i list-alpha
pastes this when i try to us
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 03:02:07PM -0400, songbird wrote:
>
> quick answer install and use xsel instead.
>
>
> a FYI, :)
>
>
> # did not work
> $ xclip -selection clip-board -i list-alpha
Your subject header says,
"Subject: Re: firefox pasting using xcli
songbird (12019-10-30):
> # did not work
> $ xclip -selection clip-board -i list-alpha
It did work. It just used the selection called "clip-board" instead of
"clipboard".
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