Re: Back to copy/paste.
Re: Back to copy/paste.
- Subject: Re: Back to copy/paste.
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:22:15 -0400
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: normal
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 (06:39 +0200 UTC) Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
Unfortunately, things aren't so rosy. Xterm is particularly tricky: I
can manage to get xterm to paste the clipboard by a suitable X
resource, but I have not managed to figure out how to copy text from
an xterm to the clipboard.
When I am in xterm what I highlight pastes into Safari and Textedit with
a right-click->paste or a Command-V. Conversely, what I Command-C or
Right-Click->Copy in Safari pastes into xterm with the middle button.
Is that what you mean you cannot do?
Or do you mean you have to tell xterm to copy selection to clipboard
with an Xresources line 'XTerm*VT100*selectToClipboard: true'? What are
the reasons for not setting 'XTerm*VT100*selectToClipboard: true'?
Below, just rambles. I am not sure what I am trying to ask or add.
I have noticed that with all versions of X since Leopard, XEmacs sees
external selections as Clipboard items. They used to paste via
the same mouse button as they still do in xterm. That has taken some
relearning. Selections inside XEmacs still paste via the middle-button
click.
Whereas XEmacs used to be the progam in X where copy/paste was the
most like it is on other systems I use (FreeBSD, Linux), it is now more
like standard Mac OS X copy/paste: if I want to paste a selection from
XEmacs to Safari, I now have to use the menu Copy (in XEmacs). The
XEmacs cut-buffer (for yank operations) is now the selection buffer.
It all seems rather esoteric (or perhaps arbitrary). The link included
on this list ealier (http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html) was
real helpful some years ago when I was getting used to xterm under X.
I no longer run any of the helper programs such as xclipboard or xcutsel
that seemed to be needed in 10.4/10.3.
--
Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky
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