Re: Trying to get clipboard into paste buffer

2018-05-30 Thread David Woodfall
On Wednesday 30 May 2018 23:46, Dave Woodfall 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 ti

Trying to get clipboard into paste buffer

2018-05-30 Thread David Woodfall
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 o