On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:10:20 +0200
Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> > On 4/18/05, Michael Scottaline
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx
> >> PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other
> >> PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a
> >> PS>bug?
> 
> Yes it is normal, cut&paste is very primitive in LyX. Also, you cannot cut a
> piece a LyX text with ctrl-C and paste it in another application like your
> mailer with ctrl-V.
> 
> Cut&paste is a sad example of the results of the over-engineered and
> under-staffed toolkit independent LyX Sonderweg. Well, I'm running on my
> hobby horse here ;-)

I have managed to copy equations to/from emacs (when I need highly twicked
documents I usually handle the latex directly and use lyx only as an equation
editor).

The problem is probably with the limitation of the X-windows copy system where
Ctrl-C/V, middle click and shift-insert aren't 100% linked.

> 
> Cheers,
> Charles
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