Support HTML fragments and other clipboard formats

[cmcqueen]

In Ubuntu Unity at least (not sure about Gnome, KDE, other platforms), it's possible to copy and paste HTML fragments and other clipboard formats. Likewise on Windows, clipboard data can be in a number of formats.

Can xerox be enhanced to support other clipboard formats? This would probably significantly increase the complexity of implementation, and increase the complexity of the API a bit, but having a good cross-platform solution would be very useful for users.

richxerox is a great starting point, although it's Mac OSX only.

[gdraps]

In case anyone needs to roll their own support:

• on Windows, here is a Python recipe for copy/paste of HTML content specifically: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/474121-getting-html-from-the-windows-clipboard/
• on Linux, as noted in the first link, patched versions of xclip 0.12 (i.e., packages usually denoted 0.12-svn84-*) support option "-target" (e.g., "-target text/html")

[cmcqueen]

xclip on Linux does support -target as you said. However, I want to support having multiple formats on the clipboard at once (e.g. HTML and plain text), but xclip can only do one format at a time.