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From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: printing a selection from xterm
Message-ID: <155@elder.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Dec 90 11:22:40 GMT
References: <696@lyman.pppl.gov>
Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <696@lyman.pppl.gov> monticel@lyman.pppl.gov (Don Monticello) writes:
>I'd like to be able to print the current selection in xterm.
>Currently I type "lpr<ret>" and paste the selection into standard
>input.  This is a kludge because it sometimes looses text.  Is there a
>better way?

There certainly is .. its called "xselection" and can be picked up from
expo.lcs.mit.edu under contrib/xselection.tar.Z or from a comp.sources.x
archive somewhere.  I have a button on my screen that does just this ..
I select some text and then press the "lpr selection" button.  The button
runs a script that finds the nearest printer and then does a ..

	xselection PRIMARY | lpr -P$printer

xselection lets you set and retrieve selection property and now cutbuffer
contents.  xselection is mainly used in shell scripts to do simple
interactions in X.

Richard Hesketh
Computing Officer, Computing Lab., University of Kent at Canterbury,
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, United Kingdom.
        Tel: +44 227 764000 ext 7620/7590      Fax: +44 227 762811