Linux program - reverse highlighted text

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Published on 2012-10-13T19:19:28Z Indexed on 2012/10/13 21:37 UTC
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I want to develop a program that will run on the background of my Ubuntu 12.04 so when some text is selected in some textbox of any running program and some key-combination is pressed (like ctrl-F12), the text will be cut, reversed, and pasted in the same place.

I know some programs that do it on windows.

It is useful in some programs and web-pages that do not support right-to-left languages like arabic and hebrew - the letters are printed from left to right so the text becomes reversed.

More specifically I need it in Prezi that has this kind of bug in their embedded flash editor (I thought about writing a chrome-plugin, but I don't think such plugin can manipulate the selected text inside a flash objects).

Do you know if such a program exist? Where should I start reading in order to develop a program with such capabilities (manipulate selected text in other programs)?

Thanks

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