Unable to use Screen's clipboard inside Firefox
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22-07-2019 - |
Question
I have not managed to get my pbcopy/pbpaste to work in Screen as discussed here.
I aim to solve the problem by having Screen clipboard inside Firefox. Its paste works in terminal by the following command but not in Firefox
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How can you use Screen's clipboard inside Firefox?
Solution
Here's a solution that makes use of screen's buffer-writing commands and pbcopy
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OTHER TIPS
Screen's clipboard (correctly called a paste buffer) only works inside that instance of screen. That's all it's designed to do.
The best way to copy-n-paste to FireFox is to use your terminal program's copy mechanism.
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