> |Meanwhile, I'm planning to use the above approach to implement 
> |copying the selected fragment from the mc built-in editor to 
> |the clipboard. 
> 
> ]- that will be superb :") ... i use mcedit for almoust all editing..
> Otherwise i have tested the whole bunch of xclip, xselection and many more which are 
>doing clipboard handling...

xselection didn't work for me (it's very old); xclip works fine, except for the KDE 
bug.

> it is bad that these utilities are not standard part of linux distros... From the 
>day I learned the middle-mouse-key i don't use them, but as u wrote the are handy in 
>situation like this ...

I really hate to have to use mouse when I'm in a terminal window...  xclip is a really 
basic facility that MUST be in every distribution. The philosophy of Linux is to 
provide command-line access to anything, so why X clipboard is an exception?



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