+void copySelection(LCursor & cur, docstring const & plaintext)
+{
+ // In tablemode, because copy and paste actually use special table stack
+ // we do not attemp to get selected paragraphs under cursor. Instead, a
+ // paragraph with the plain text version is generated so that table cells
+ // can be pasted as pure text somewhere else.
+ if (cur.selBegin().idx() != cur.selEnd().idx()) {
+ ParagraphList pars;
+ Paragraph par;
+ BufferParams const & bp = cur.buffer().params();
+ par.layout(bp.getLyXTextClass().defaultLayout());
+ par.insert(0, plaintext, LyXFont(), Change(Change::UNCHANGED));
+ pars.push_back(par);
+ theCuts.push(make_pair(pars, bp.textclass));
+ } else
+ copySelectionToStack(cur, theCuts);
+
+ // stuff the selection onto the X clipboard, from an explicit copy request
+ putClipboard(theCuts[0].first, theCuts[0].second, plaintext);
+}
+
+
+void saveSelection(LCursor & cur)
+{
+ if (lyxerr.debugging(Debug::ACTION))
+ lyxerr << BOOST_CURRENT_FUNCTION << ": `"
+ << to_utf8(cur.selectionAsString(true)) << "'."
+ << endl;
+
+ if (cur.selection())
+ copySelectionToStack(cur, selectionBuffer);
+ // tell X whether we now have a valid selection
+ theSelection().haveSelection(cur.selection());
+}
+
+
+bool selection()
+{
+ return !selectionBuffer.empty();
+}
+
+
+void clearSelection()
+{
+ selectionBuffer.clear();
+}
+
+
+docstring getSelection(Buffer const & buf, size_t sel_index)