I don't doubt that it cant be done with pango but it seems odd that there isnt anyway to stream/save a block of text to a clipboard? (I found myself "clawing" at the text in the manual )
>> No, there is no copy-and-paste for textblocks. Sadly, it won't be a >> part of the next release either. I'm thinking of moving away from >> Pango so that I can use each operating system's native text to >> accomplish this. >> >> I think it's interesting that this feature comes up every few months >> even though many GUI toolkits have neither good text-flowing methods >> nor good copy-and-paste of such text. I don't think NodeBox or >> Processing and other drawing kits have it either. >
