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Clipboard: use table for neater presentation

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Marco Hinz 2016-01-11 03:23:49 +01:00
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@ -639,12 +639,10 @@ Program A: respond to request and send data to Program B
Program B: receives data from Program A and inserts it into the window Program B: receives data from Program A and inserts it into the window
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- **PRIMARY selection**: Used when you select text in any application. | Selection | When used? | How to paste? | How to access from Vim? |
Afterwards it can be pasted somewhere else via `middle-click` or |-----------|------------|---------------|-------------------------|
`shift+insert`. In Vim you access the selection using the `*` register. | PRIMARY | Selecting text | `middle-click`, `shift+insert` | `*` register |
- **CLIPBOARD selection**: Used when you copy/paste like you would normally do, | CLIPBOARD | Selecting text and `ctrl+c` | `ctrl+v` | `+` register |
via `ctrl+c`/`ctrl+v` and the likes. In Vim you access this selection by using
the `+` register.
**NOTE**: Selections (no, not even the CLIPBOARD selection) are never kept in **NOTE**: Selections (no, not even the CLIPBOARD selection) are never kept in
the X server! Thus you lose the data copied with `ctrl+c` when the application the X server! Thus you lose the data copied with `ctrl+c` when the application