On 2020-11-22 17:13, Antony Stone wrote:

> I _had_ thought there was this thing called "the clipboard" to which
> copied text was, well, copied, and that it could then be pasted
> afterwards into whatever you wanted, but indeed, it no longer exists
> if you close the window it was selected from.

This is one reason why the "clipboard manager" category of program
exists. They take ownership of the clippings and preserve them beyond
the life of the original creating window.

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Ian