And a DBus method to get the primary selection

[Stephen Boddy]

Original request in a Launchpad Question: "I want to create a custom command to open a file (it is selected the path/name of file in Terminator) with an editor. Is there any keyword to represent the selected text?"

My (maintainer) best way to do this would be to add a DBus call that can be used with remotinator that would get the highlighted text. An bash alias can be used to get the selection, so:
alias tps="remotinator get_primary_selection"

and calling the following would work:
vi $(tps)

For example if a large file was selected. (Personally I would always use Select and middle click, so I'm not sure what exactly this helps with.)

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Just wondering, how is it any simpler than entering

vi <shift-insert>

?

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Also this might be problematic if the current working directory changed in between. iTerm2 has a nice shell integration where the emulator does have the concept of the working directory (and remembers it line-by-line) and a Cmd-click or something similar can be used to open the file in the correct directory. We're yet to see if we'll do anything similar in Vte.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Furthermore:

xclip -o

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

xclip works only in local, if I have a opened remote ssh session in Terminator, xclip doesn't work.

[Juan Simón (simonbcn)]

The custom commands have a poor utility if I can't interact with actual session. For example, I want to search in Google an error displayed in console.