clipmenu

Simple clipboard management using dmenu
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commit d4390324f535faae2db6316facfd051d53646d21
parent d246b63f2700e26809e6b8d5e07834e298fcc0e9
Author: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:19:41 -0700

Document why we add/remove an "x" when grabbing the clipboard data

Diffstat:

Mclipmenud | 3+++


1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clipmenud b/clipmenud
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ while sleep 1; do
             data=$(xclip -o -sel "$selection"; printf x)
         fi
 
+        # We add and remove the x so that trailing newlines are not stripped.
+        # Otherwise, they would be stripped by the very nature of how POSIX
+        # defines command substitution.
         data=${data%x}
 
         [[ $data == *[^[:blank:]]* ]] || continue