how to swap clipboard content with selection upon keyboard shortcut

Question

I\'d like to exchange the currently selected text in eclipse (or even any program) on linux with the content of the clipboard when pressing a shortcut like Ctrl-B. Any ideas

Answer 1

With xclip, these three steps can be performed (read > as "replaces"):

• Primary > Secondary
• Cliboard > Primary
• Secondary > Clipboard

Since no program ever uses it, we use Secondary as a temporary slot to swap Clipboard with Primary.

xclip -o -sel p|xclip -i -sel s
xclip -o -sel c|xclip -i -sel p
xclip -o -sel s|xclip -i -sel c

Make the script executable with chmod +x script and now you can bind a shortcut to it.