On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:30:32PM +0100, Stephan Mucha wrote: > I felt very glad when I saw Lionels patch for "Make selection > behavior more standard conformant" as this is a very important point > for my work with TeXmacs.
It is originally not my patch, but Norbert Nemec's. I merely enhanced the code quality of two little lines of it. Credit and blame for the overall patch should go to Norbert. > Unfortunaly, it doesn't adress one important problem: Selections always > go to clipboard (...) Indeed. > Afaik, most unix X11 applications which support both types of > selection behaviour separate the two: I had in memory that it is specified in the ICCCM (the X11 Inter-Client Communication Convention Manual) that they should indeed be separated in that "merely select with the mouse" shall use PRIMARY, that mouse middle-click shall use PRIMARY and that explicit commands, whether by menu or keyboard shortcut shall use CLIPBOARD. However, I can't find that language back in the ICCCM right now... Emacs doesn't quite behave that way, but this is considered a bug most people - except the emacs developers. They added options to get this standard behaviour, and also to overdo it: menu-bar-enable-clipboard, x-select-enable-clipboard, ... -- Lionel _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
