Re: Back to copy/paste.
Re: Back to copy/paste.
- Subject: Re: Back to copy/paste.
- From: Nathan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:25:30 -0600
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Ben Byer <email@hidden> wrote:
> This is actually part of the problem, because people have varying
> expectations of what should happen in OS X when you hit paste in e.g.
> TextEdit. Does it paste the contents of the primary selection, or of the
> clipboard? Right now I think it tries to guess what you want -- if you have
> something selected, it'll paste that, otherwise it'll paste the clipboard.
> However, this runs contrary to your expectations (which are fair) -- do you
> have any ideas for a better way to handle this?
(Ok, one more time, this time with "reply-all")
I've watched the clipboard discussion rage on for months (years?) now.
Notwithstanding my much reading, I'm not sure that I have a correct
understanding of all the various bits and pieces. If I, who have
carefully read the clipboard threads ad nauseum, don't understand,
then I'm sure there's more misunderstanding out there.
Could we please concretely explain the different bits and pieces that
are always mismatching? Then, after we've all agreed on how it works
(or doesn't) currently, sane proposals can be made.
Here, let me start. I created a wiki page here:
http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin_Clipboard
Go look it over, and then tell me what I got wrong, and let's hammer
it out on the wiki so that we can always refer to it as authoritative
instead of trying to re-explain it from memory every single time
someone joins the list just to complain about the clipboard. I even
made a proposal for how the copy/paste interaction ought to work,
though it's based upon several stated assumptions that may or may not
be true.
~ Nathan
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