Re: Back to copy/paste.
Re: Back to copy/paste.
- Subject: Re: Back to copy/paste.
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:26:41 +0000
Hi Nathan,
Just wanted to say that I too shared in your state of being confused, and appreciate you creating this web page.
Mick.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Nathan <email@hidden>
> 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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