[...] > Back in ye olden days, as I recall, text had to be selected by the mouse > using the left button along with mouse movement for the text to be > copied to the X buffer--selecting text with the keyboard did not copy it > to the X buffer although the toolkit's provided buffer could be copied > into with an accelerator key/menu selection. Then clearing the text by > deleting it and then clicking elsewhere in the app and finally > middle-clicking pasted the text. The buffer would retain that text > until a new selection was made. At least that's how I recall it used to > be done. > > <rant> > The newer desktops and GUI toolkits seem to have mucked with this enough > that it seems as though I don't know what will remain in the X buffer > and what will be in a toolkit's copy buffer. Therefore apps like XFCE's > Clipman and KDE's clipboard manager are essential, especially with > Firefox's address bar. As I see it, this whole paste buffer issue has > become a bit of a roullette wheel over the past several years and is not > just limited to Geany. While I happily left the look of Motif apps > behind, I don't recall these sorts of text buffer issues with them. I > will say this, getting used to the availability of the X buffer over the > years, I find it a real limitation when it is not available on other > platforms, i.e. MS Windows. > </rant>
I think you are right, the unix system has been screwed up by trying to emulate the windows system on top of it and no-one is sure what anything is supposed to do, and no-one is sure what the "correct" behavior is (except its whatever I say :) or whatever todays GTK nerd thinks who wasn't born when Unix worked right. </rant2> Cheers Lex > > - Nate >> > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
