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| | X Selections, X Cut Buffers, and Emacs Kill Rings |
 | | However, I've noticed that a lot of people are being referred here to answer more general questions of how copying and pasting work under X, or, more specifically, how they should implement copying and pasting in their own X applications. |
 | | But when pasting that into a word processor, you'd want to keep the font information: if both applications spoke HTML, they could use that as the intermediate format by which they transferred the data. |
 | | When trying to copy and paste an image into a text editor that can't do images, the text editor might decide that the next best thing would be to paste the filename of the image, or the URL. |
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