Subject: Re: bug with clipboard
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 11:07:16 CST
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 06:54, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> I hate this Unix behaviour. The 'select=autocopy' makes it
> impossible to paste over a selection; I do this all the time and in
> 'normal' Unix applications this requires that I delete the text to be
> replaced character by character in order not loose the text on the
> clipboard. As irritating this might be for manual editing, even more
> critically, if creating a selection changes the clipboard, it becomes
> virtually impossible for a script automating the wordprocessor
> behaviour to use the clipboard for anything but trivial tasks. I feel
> very strongly that we should have select-copy-paste behaviour as
> the default on all platforms including Unix; I find the fact that this is
> not the 'normal' way on Unix of little significance, since the 'normal'
> Unix way is extremely restrictive. I, of course, have no objection to
> having a preference that allows the user to switch to the 'normal'
> Unix way.
I understand your point of view, and agree that it proba bly should be
an option in unix as well, however this should be the default because
of: read below
> Also, I think with a feature like this, which is used all the time, our
> first priority should be consistency across platforms, and only then
> consistency with the platform standard; I use AW both on win32
> and Unix, and I would find it extremely contraproductive if I had to
> use a different copy/paste mechanism on each platform.
Abiword is consistent feature wise in every platform, but it also is a
native application in every platform. Therefore, behaviour that is
standard in one platform should be respected and implemented in a
compliant form.
Thus, the unix style of copy & paste should be on by default in unix
builds.
But the halfway implementation that is currently done is even worse than
opting to do just one of them, which would be horrible by itself.
Hugs, rms
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