Re: Getting the (text) selection from the clipboard

[Neil Jerram]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> Does anyone know if there is a guile procedure to get the (text)
> selection? (That is from doing Copy in another application)
> Richard

I assume you mean in the X sense.

In core Guile: no.  But maybe guile-gtk or guile-gnome might expose an
equivalent Gtk+ API?

(There is also guile-xlib, which might theoretically be a good place
for this; but in practice it doesn't provide any selection APIs.)

Regards,
        Neil