How do I use the primary, not clipboard buffer?

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Aka the equivalent of xclip -o -selection primary, not xclip -o -selection clipboard. primary is selection, clipboard is Ctrl-C usually.

asked Jun 16, 2018 at 17:50

Reactormonk

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does this answers your question?
– manandearth
Jun 16, 2018 at 22:19
That's mac. xclip is specifically Linux, X11.
– Reactormonk
Jun 17, 2018 at 15:33
There are the variables select-enable-clipboard and select-enable-primary.
– Tobias
Jun 18, 2018 at 13:20

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