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diff --git a/man/man1/snarfer.1 b/man/man1/snarfer.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9fd016ae --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/snarfer.1 @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +.TH SNARFER 1 +.SH NAME +snarfer \- manage the snarf buffer +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B snarfer +[ +.B -v +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Snarfer +watches the snarf buffer for changes. +Each time a program changes the snarf buffer contents, +.I snarfer +copies the new contents and then takes over control +of the buffer. +Because the snarf buffer contents are managed by +.I snarfer +instead of by individual programs, the contents remain +available even after the program that wrote them exits. +.PP +The +.B -v +option, intended for debugging, causes +.I snarfer +to print the new snarf buffer contents each time it changes. +.PP +On Mac OS X, +running +.I snarfer +keeps the X11 snarf buffer in sync with the Carbon snarf buffer, +working around a bug in the OS X X11 server. +See +.IR getsnarf (3) +for more details. +.SH SOURCE +.B \*9/src/cmd/snarfer.c +.SH SEE ALSO +Unix's \fIxclipboard\fR(1), +.IR getsnarf (3) +.SH BUGS +Both +.I xclipboard +and +.I snarfer +want sole control of the snarf buffer. +Running both at the same time will +pass the snarf buffer back and forth between them +in an infinite loop. |