I have been trying to get xsel --delete to work to ultimately implement a script to move selected material from one editor to another.
According to the description:
Delete the contents of the selection
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xsel --delete
Will cause the program in which text is selected to delete that text. This
really works, you can try it on xedit to remotely delete text in the editor
window.
But this does not seem to work (emacs, gedit and also tried xedit).
According to the man page:
-d, --delete
Request that the current selection be deleted. This not only
clears the selection, but also requests to the program in which
the selection resides that the selected contents be deleted.
Overrides all input options.
But selected text is not even cleared. Clearing with --clear worked in gedit, but not in emacs.
In all cases I checked if the selected text was "known" with xsel -p -o first.
How can I get xsel --delete to work? Does this depend on the application listening to xsel?
