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4458	Support clipboard via OSC 52	yurikhan		"Many terminal emulators, starting with Xterm, conditionally allow access to the system clipboard via an escape sequence. In comparison with `xclip`-based solution (#30), this works transparently when you `ssh` around, without X11 forwarding and without having to install `xclip` on each server you manage.

To write to the clipboard, an application sends `ESC ] 5 2 ; c ; <content> ESC \`, where ''<content>'' is base64-encoded. (`BEL` can also be used as terminator.)

To read the clipboard, an application sends `ESC ] 5 2 ; c ; ? ESC \`. A conforming terminal will respond by sending `ESC ] 5 2 ; c ; <content> ESC \`, again, with ''<content>'' base64-encoded. (If the request uses `BEL` instead of `ESC \`, the terminal’s response will typically also be terminated with `BEL`.)

A non-supporting but ANSI-conforming terminal will ignore the unsupported OSC sequence until the `ESC \` or `BEL` terminator.

I do not think there is a termcap/terminfo capability advertising support, so it would probably have to be a user option. Alternatively, `mc` could unconditionally put copied content into both `~/.local/share/mc/mcedit/mcedit.clip` and send the OSC sequence; when pasting, first send the request, and if no response within a few milliseconds, fall back to reading `~/.local/share/mc/mcedit/mcedit.clip`."	enhancement	new	major	Future Releases	mc-core	master			egmont			no branch