I'm finding more and more often, that being able to redirect things to
/dev/clipboard isn't quite enough.
ie emailing patchs really needs a file attachment, not inline text.
I'm considering the following change therefore:
create a new device /dev/clipfile which when written to places a "file"
(specifically a CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR format object) on the clipboard,
consisting of the contents written to /dev/clipfile.
The upshot of that is that
---
cvs diff -up foo > /dev/clipfile
[switch to some application that understands file copy and paste - ie
outlook]
shift-insert
---
would work.
/dev/clipfile would also be able to be used to read the contents of a
copied file from the clipboard (without the metadata for obvious
reasons).
Thoughts?
Rob
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