On 2007-07-19 23:44:31 -0400, Ambrose Li wrote:
> On 18/07/07, Vincent Lefevre <email@hidden> wrote:
>> In fact, you have 3 selection mechanisms under X11: cut buffers,
>> the primary selection, and the clipboard. Like under Mac OS X,
>> you usually need Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, etc. to handle the clipboard
>> under X11. But the (obsolete but still used by xterm) cut buffers
>> and the primary selection are both handled by select and paste
>> with the middle button. So, users can use what they prefer.
>
> This is not very fair, because sometimes middle clicking is the ONLY
> way you can get things to work (e.g., in certain versions of OpenOffice
> when dealing with Chinese text). Ctrl-V pasting of Chinese often does
> not work correctly (gtk based apps being a general exception).
Then this is a bug.
> If you have a mechanism which often is the ONLY way things can work,
> it cannot possibly be obsolete.
Note: only cut buffers are obsolete, probably because they only
support ISO-8859-1 (so, in particular, they won't work with Chinese
characters, and anyway, OpenOffice doesn't support cut buffers,
AFAIK). However, cut buffers are useful (when used to copy-paste
URLs, for instance) as they are permanent, unlike the primary
selection, which disappears when the application terminates.
> BTW, on the topic of copy-and-paste, I never could got quartz-wm to
> proxy copy-and-paste at all.
What do you mean?
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