Tim Daneliuk writes: > However, the highlighted text must be copied explicitly: > > Highlight > Ctl-C [ ... ] > X actually has several clipboard buffers and it can be tricky to get this > going. I don't recall, > but either clipboard or pyperclip have a way to get to them all IIRC ...
To get the highlighted text in X without needing a copy, you want the PRIMARY X selection rather than CLIPBOARD. I think pyperclip can get it (it uses an external program like xsel, and xsel can get any of the three X selections), or you can get the selection using a GUI library like GTK, Qt or Tk. Some examples: https://github.com/akkana/scripts/blob/master/pyclip ...Akkana -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
