How can I get the contens of applications by programming ?

[a qi]

Thanks for your replay.   IT seems that   my requestment   is   Unreasonable .


On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Excerpts from a qi's message of Fri Aug 13 13:41:30 +0200 2010:
>> How can I get the contens of applications by programming ?
>>
>> for example,
>>
>> scene 1:  I want to select some text( line 10,  for simplicity ) by
>> press one hotkey  when   I edit a file by vi ,  so that I can paste it
>> in other applications later.
>
> In X its usually enough to select text and press the middle mouse botton
> on a different window (vim insert mode, shell whatsoever). This will
> copy paste the selected text.
>
>
>> scene 2:  I want to save some text  ( line 10 ~ 20, for simplicity)
>> directly into ' /home/guy/useful-text.db ' by press one hotkey when  I
>> visit some webpages by firefox .
>
> Write a script such as
>
> #!/bin/sh
> { echo ; date ;  xclip -o } >> ~/useful-text.db
>
> If you copy past from FireFox very much - it has plugins which copy the
> selected text and add the url for reference. You may want to digg for
> those.
>
> Then bind it to a key using your window manager.
>
> If you want to automate it - no clue how to select line 10-15
> automatically - sorry.
>
> Marc Weber
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