From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: salvador <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] Get selection to buffer addition
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 01:24:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000101012446.B27@(none)> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B66A90D.789A90A8@inti.gov.ar> <3B66DDEB.1EA1FEC@inti.gov.ar>
In-Reply-To: <3B66DDEB.1EA1FEC@inti.gov.ar>; from salvador@inti.gov.ar on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 01:33:47PM -0300
Hi!
> I'm sending this mail again with the patch in plain text and not
> gzip+uuencoded, sorry for any inconvenience.
>
> What I'm looking for:
> I'm looking for comments and approval for a small addition to the console
> driver (drivers/char/console.c).
>
> Small description:
> The included patches adds a couple of new services to the TIOCLINUX ioctl
> call, they are:
>
> 13 (get selection into a buffer): It copies the contents of the selection
> buffer (maintained in kernel space) into a user space provided buffer. Is
> something like "paste to a buffer" instead of just paste to the current
> console.
>
> 14 (get selection length): Returns the length of the selection buffer (0 if
> none selected).
Looks good to me. Now, all I want is utility to share clipboard between
X and text console...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-08 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-31 12:48 [RFC] Get selection to buffer addition salvador
2001-07-31 16:33 ` salvador
2000-01-01 1:24 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-08-08 21:21 ` Russell King
2001-08-09 18:53 ` salvador
2001-07-31 16:39 ` James Simmons
2001-07-31 17:49 ` salvador
2001-08-01 17:42 ` James Simmons
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