Re: What happens when you copy? (was: Back to copy/paste)
Re: What happens when you copy? (was: Back to copy/paste)
- Subject: Re: What happens when you copy? (was: Back to copy/paste)
- From: Merle Reinhart <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:30:19 -0400
On Apr 19, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
But Adam (and others?) sees different behaviour:
+ "Adam D. I. Kramer" <email@hidden>:
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- Select something in an xterm, and push command-C.
- De-select it, and select something ELSE.
- The something ELSE pastes within X11
- The something ELSE pastes within other cocoa apps, even though it
was not copied*.
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As far as I can figure out, that must mean that the event containing
primary selection data has arrived late, or that a second, spurious
such
event arrived to be handled by notify_event in the usual manner.
Why this happens to Adam and not to me is beyond my ken.
The most usual event isn't that something else is selected and then
pastes
elsewhere, it's more that when the item I have selected is
deselected, the
clipboard in other cocoa apps is empty.
From my testing with your example, this makes sense as the OS X
pasteboard is still tracking the X11 buffer which winds up empty
because nothing is selected in X11, thus, the OS X pasteboard is thus
empty. (ie, this is just a degenerate form of the previous and are
thus the same issue).
I think what is debatable is that the Command-C in X11 doesn't
immediately copy the selected X11 contents to the OS X pasteboard, but
only keeps it synchronized until Command-V in an OS X app is used.
Merle
You should be able to replicate this pretty straightforwardly. Select
something in X11 (say, a URL from pine which is my most common
frustration),
then push command-C, then deselect the URL and try to paste it into
Safari.
--Adam
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