Give xcopy an option to talk to the GNOME/KDE-style clipboard as

[sgt/utils] / xcopy / xcopy.but

diff --git a/xcopy/xcopy.but b/xcopy/xcopy.but
index 1be9e0c..6e485f8 100644 (file)
--- a/xcopy/xcopy.but
+++ b/xcopy/xcopy.but
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 \cfg{man-identity}{xcopy}{1}{2004-08-02}{Simon Tatham}{Simon Tatham}
-\cfg{man-mindepth}{1}
 
 \title Man page for \cw{xcopy}
 
@@ -91,6 +90,16 @@ window, you might well want to paste a string full of escape
 sequences and control characters, in which case you may need to use
 \cw{-C} to disable conversion to compound text.
 
+\dt \cw{-b}
+
+\dd Causes \cw{xcopy} to read or write the clipboard instead of the
+selection. (Modern GNOME and KDE-style programs can often interact
+with both. The \e{selection} is the traditional X-style storage
+location which you typically copy things into just by selecting them
+with the mouse, and paste with the middle mouse button. The
+\e{clipboard} is a more Windows-like location which you access using
+explicit Cut, Copy and Paste commands in your application.)
+
 \U BUGS
 
 Occasionally \cw{xcopy -r} completely fails to notice selection data
@@ -107,3 +116,5 @@ which they could have converted).
 
 \cw{xcopy} is free software, distributed under the MIT licence. Type
 \cw{xcopy --licence} to see the full licence text.
+
+\versionid $Id$