> > (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).
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. 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. Tomas
