On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 06:15, Dan Bachelder wrote: > Not this is intellijs problem or anything... but i'll chime in here and > say that I have also been experiencing inconsistent and frustrating cut > & paste behavior under Linux & GNOME.. this happens with all Swing apps > I have used... it's especially painful when I want to use middle-mouse > button... it seems to have a harder time than ctrl-c/x, ctrl-v.
That's because there are multiple clipboards/selections under X. IIRC, simply selecting text with the mouse copies that text into the primary selection. The middle mouse button pastes the primary selection. This is intended to be used for quick copy-paste operations. Unfortunately Swing does not support the primary selection... You can also copy text into the clipboard selection, which you normally do using an explicit copy command -- this selection is intended to be slightly more permanent, and shouldn't be "destroyed" just because you happen to select some text in a window. You can copy something to the clipboard selection by marking the text in Emacs and selecting Edit/Copy, or by marking it in a Swing application and pressing Ctrl-C. You can paste it in a Swing application using Ctrl-V. I don't think that xterm supports the clipboard selection, so to copy text from xterm to Swing you need to either paste it into an intermediate application or use xcutsel. Just to make things more interesting, you can have other selections too, and there's also something called cut buffers that some applications use... And if you use Emacs, it has its own "kill ring" that is accessed with Ctrl-W / Ctrl-Y and which is apparently separate from all these other copy/paste mechanisms. _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
