Subject: Re: bug with clipboard
From: Rui Miguel Seabra (rms@multicert.com)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 13:55:42 CST
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 09:20, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> Oh thanks for the clarification, rms.
> It seems that the bit that sounded unintuitive to me
> was the bit about clearing the clipboard. Do other
> OSes really do this??!
It is intuitive as long as it works in almost all (if not all) x
applications. _except_ in apps that badly support c&p.
It should not clear the clipboard just because it lost the selection.
I think that any app in x, unless told otherwise, copies on select but I
might be wrong. Abiword does that, but it should only touch the
clipboard again on another act of copy (selection, C-c, C-x, etc..) and
not as the selection is lost when it pastes.
I don't know how it works on mac os x, but AFAIR, it didn't in previous
versions of the mac os, it doesn't on windows, qnx probably does, etc.
Hugs, rms
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