vis

commit 831785b9026f88774b0ca232d1394f97c8118e8e
parent fcd45f47fe5c58e3dd081f4487fc0ff540f9ce09
Author: Randy Palamar <palamar@ualberta.ca>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2023 16:49:47 -0600

vis-clipboard: don't fail when sel is primary on unsupported platforms

this is mostly useful for the internal vis usage and makes both `*` and
`+` registers work on macOS/cygwin.

fixes: #1067

Diffstat:
M
man/vis-clipboard.1
 | 
3
++-
M
vis-clipboard
 | 
4
----

2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/vis-clipboard.1 b/man/vis-clipboard.1
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ In this mode,
 reads the content of the system clipboard,
 and writes it to standard output.
 .It Fl -selection Ar selection
-specify which selection to use, options are "primary" or "clipboard"
+specify which selection to use, options are "primary" or
+"clipboard". Silently ignored on platforms with a single clipboard.
 .El
 .
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
diff --git a/vis-clipboard b/vis-clipboard
@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ vc_determine_command() {
 		done
 	fi
 
-	if [ "$sel" = "primary" ]; then
-		vc_fatal "clipboard primary selection is not supported on your platform"
-	fi
-
 	if command -v pbcopy >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 		echo 'mac'
 		return 0