Re: copy and paste broken in Tiger
Re: copy and paste broken in Tiger
- Subject: Re: copy and paste broken in Tiger
- From: Eugene <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:02:28 -0500
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:21:51PM CDT, Rich Cook <email@hidden> wrote:
:
: Yes, the xemacs clipboard seems to override the xterm clipboard. The
: workaround that always works for me is to "reset" the clipboard by
: copying something into Aqua before doing a copy in X11. That is, the
: following sequence never fails for me:
: 1) copy some text in Aqua in any application
: 2) copy some text from the xterm
: 3) paste into an Aqua application -- you'll get the xterm text
: without fail. Somehow #1 "resets" the clipboard or something.
:
: <rant>Apple, please fix this! You've known about it for months,
: perhaps more. Apple does not seem to care about the user experience
: as much as they used to. Maybe it doesn't pay off any more. They
: are too busy inventing big new ideas to care about UI details, which
: is what used to make them kick ass. Now we have bugs in software
: that last for literally years without any fix (just look at the
: bizarre behaviors and bugs in Finder and Mail.app) and you never know
: what they are doing about it. Really irritating. I guess it's
: better than Linux or Windows, though! But that shouldn't be good
: enough for Apple. </rant>
Asking Apple to fix the X11 user experience is "like booing at the
Special Olympics". (all props to Triumph :-)
--
Eugene
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