Re: Dosemu, Linux, XyWrite -- another clipboard kludge

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Bob wrote:

1. Xywrite 3.55 has a command,
SAVEDEF, which can save any defined text into a file, like so:


SAVEDEF c:clip.txt


assuming C: is where clip.txt normally resides


2. Put the following in your keyboard.kbd file, like so:


=BC,S,A,V,E,D,E,F, ,c,:,c,l,i,p,.,t,x,t,XC,CH


By hitting this keystroke after making a selection in Xywrite, the
selection would then be saved to clip.txt.


Yes, except I'm using S,A,S (SAveSel, same as SAveDef, which is also
available in Xy4).


3. From here, you
could set up a Linux script, assigned to a shortcut key, to use xsel to
put clip.txt into the system clipboard. Or you could create a macro with
Xmacro to select the text of clip.txt and copy it into the clipboard.
Either method should work.


Yes, I've modified my scripts and setup. Now I have frxy and toxy as
transfer files (replacing clip.txt and both in the ~/clip folder, which
cleans up the mess I was making of my home directory).  I've also
played with modifying the scripts, so I do two things at once, move the
highlighted selection to toxy and move frxy to the X (Linux) clipboard.
I've not fully tested it out, thanks to some frustrating experience with
Xmacro, but if I understand what I'm doing (not a given) it should
work.


A second script works (should work) to append additional clips to toxy
and frxy.


The end result is I click on one icon to send a clip to and from XyWrite,
and one icon to do the same thing but append it to the previous transfer.
Because I use separate files and because X's selection facility has three
parts (primary [currently highlighted text], secondary [?], and clipboard
[selection previously copied to clipboard]) I can move text in two
directions at once. Not fully tested, as I said.


I don't have the flexibilty to assign keys to invoke a
launcher, as far as I can tell (it's not an obvious option in the desktop
keyboard mapping utility). At least not in the Gnome desktop (Ubuntu); I
have also installed the KDE desktop (Kubuntu) and can boot into that as
an option; don't yet know if I can do what you're doing if I use the KDE
desktop.


In fact, if done right in
Xmacros I am pretty sure the macro would only require one keystroke to
both copy clip.txt into the clipboard and then paste it wherever you want
it.


At this rate I'll never know. I spent an extended lunch hour fooling with
Xmacro. And what I've learned is this: if I type the command to run
doscopy.macro in a terminal window and hit enter, it runs perfectly
(albeit slowly, since I slowed it down to make sure it was working). The
same command line, assigned to a launcher and run as an application in a
terminal (and invoking the exact same macro, with the delays still in
there) doesn't work. As best I can tell it never copies what it should
and may not make it to desktop 4. I can see the terminal launch and
close, but not much seems to happen. Thanks to all that fooling, though,
I've developed a better understanding of the macros and how to edit them
to shorten the macro file; just can't make use of the result.


So I'm back to refining my xsel scripts, probably this evening.


Paul



Paul Lagasse

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