Subject: Re: bug with clipboard
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 03:20:23 CST
--- Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@multicert.com> wrote: >
DEBUG: Clipboard: explicit clear [CLIPBOARD
> 0][PRIMARY 1]
> DEBUG: Clipboard: SELCLR: [property PRIMARY]
>
> I select text, it copies.
> I paste, it pastes.
> However, it also clears the clipboard, since it lost
> the selection.
>
> This is bad:
>
> If we support unix style copy and paste, we cannot
> clear the clipboard
> just because the selection is gone.
> It is counter intuitive, specially in the unix
> environment. I do not
> know how this behaves in platforms where that
> behaviour is not standard
> (but imho we should always support the unix way when
> feasible since it's
> more user friendly to select (autocopy) and paste
> than select, copy, and
> finally paste).
This sounds counterintuitive on all platforms I've
used: *nix, Windows, Mac, and even Amiga!
Andrew Dunbar.
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