I have been trying to get xsel --delete to work to ultimately implement a script to move selected material from one editor to another.According to the description:Delete the contents of the selection------------------------------------        xsel --deleteWill cause the program in which text is selected to delete that text. Thisreally works, you can try it on xedit to remotely delete text in the editorwindow.But this does not seem to work (emacs, gedit and also tried xedit). According to the man page:-d, --delete       Request that the current selection be  deleted.  This  not  only       clears  the selection, but also requests to the program in which       the selection resides that the  selected  contents  be  deleted.       Overrides all input options.But selected text is not even cleared. Clearing with --clear worked in gedit, but not in emacs.In all cases I checked if the selected text was known with xsel -p -o first.How can I get xsel --delete to work? Does this depend on the application listening to xsel?
xsel not deleting selected text
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