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Default to -filter instead of -silent in a pipeline. #115
Description
As of xclip 0.13, using xclip in a pipeline requires the user to explicitly add the -filter argument. Changing the default value from -silent to isatty(stdout) ? -silent : -filter would remove this need. The user could then write
foo | xclip | bar
# instead of
foo | xclip -filter | bar
Activity
[-]Decide input/output mode based on whether stdin is interactive.[/-][+]Default to -filter instead of -silent in a pipeline.[/+]hackerb9 commentedon Feb 4, 2021
I agree with this suggestion. Making the most common case the easiest makes sense to me. If a script wants to ensure a specific mode instead of relying on autodetection, it could always specify -in/-out/-filter.
However, the maintainer of xclip is not yet convinced that using isatty() a good idea. Feel free to weigh in on #88 if you have any helpful thoughts.