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Add special target atoms documentation. #137

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Expand Up @@ -42,10 +42,14 @@ when the last character of the selection is a newline character, remove it. Newl
number of X selection requests (pastes into X applications) to wait for before exiting, with a value of 0 (default) causing xclip to wait for an unlimited number of requests until another application (possibly another invocation of xclip) takes ownership of the selection.
.TP
\fB\-t\fR \fIt\fR, \fB\-target\fR \fIt\fR
specify a particular data format using the given target atom. With \fB\-o\fR the
special target atom name "TARGETS" can be used to get a list of valid target
atoms for this selection. The default target is "STRING". For more information
about target atoms refer to ICCCM section 2.6.2
specify a particular data format using the given target atom. The default target is "STRING".
Some target atoms have a specfic semantic.
With \fB\-o\fR the special target atom name "TARGETS" can be used to get a list of valid target
atoms for this selection.
With \fB\-o\fR the special target atom name "TIMESTAMP" can be used to get the timestamp used to acquire the selection.
With \fB\-o\fR the special target atom name "MULTIPLE" can be used to... (see example below).
With \fB\-o\fR the special target atom name "SAVE_TARGETS" can be used to ...
For more information about target atoms refer to ICCCM section 2.6.2
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-display\fR
X display to use (e.g. "localhost:0"), xclip defaults to the value in $\fBDISPLAY\fR if this option is omitted
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.PP
Exit after /etc/motd (message of the day) has been pasted 10 times. Show how many selection requests (pastes) have been processed.

.B uptime | xclip -o -t MULTIPLE test/html= text=
.PP
Put your uptime in ...


.SH NOTES

Using the \fB\-sensitive\fR option will clear the selection buffer of the
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