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 is with this "Xenforum site". It must be using > something other than a standard textarea.
it may be the case. note i am not posting this to fix that other issue i am only posting it for people who may run into it and think that there is some fix they can make still using xclip which may be possible but i never found it. however, for some reason xsel just works. that is the only point to my post. if you'd like to look at what xsel does different inside firefox then perhaps that would be interesting but a complete aside from the point of my initial post... songbird
