From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Date: Thu,  3 May 2007 21:16:10 -0400
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mac p9p snarf buffer 
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:16:10 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
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| X11 doesn't have a snarf buffer.  Instead it has an idea of which
| window currently "owns" the snarf (X11 would say `selection'), and
| when you want to find the snarf contents you go ask the current owner.
| There is no central buffer like on Plan 9's /dev/snarf or the Windows
| clipboard.  (In addition to making things a lot more complicated, this
| means that snarf contents do not persist once their owner exits.  But
| that particular problem isn't relevant here.)
 
No, it really does have a CLIPBOARD property, separate from selections
like PRIMARY.  A program like xclipboard or kde's klipper or whatever
the gnome thing is, maintains this.