Re: Back to copy/paste.
Re: Back to copy/paste.
- Subject: Re: Back to copy/paste.
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:03:15 -0400
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: normal
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 (08:48 -0700 UTC) Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Apr 18, 2008, at 04:22, robert delius royar wrote:
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
I'm sure you mean 'hilight, then edit->copy' here... just hilighting should
not cause it to move to the pasteboard.
No, I did mean highlight by itself. I have
'XTerm*VT100*selectToClipboard: true' in my ~/.Xresources (as stated).
Also, I believe that the X resource names use highlight, not hilight.
[snip]
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.
<snip>
so this sounds like xemacs breaking the X11 laws... we're not going to put in
effort to make broken X11 apps behave right. We're going to put in effort to
make working ones behave right ;)
I don't want to give XEmacs a bad reputation. I think its developers
pay close attention to X requirements.
I am sure there are ways to tell XEmacs to do exactly what I want. I
suppose I could ask the developers if they are breaking X11 laws in
their handling of obsolete CUT_BUFFERx vs. PRIMARY_SELECTION vs.
CLIPBOARD. But what I was trying to illustrate was that on another
(linux/xandros) system that also uses X.org's server, the same actions
in the same version of XEmacs (with no changes in the init-code related
to copy/cut, paste/yank) the results are different from in Apple's X11.
In the linux/xandros example, selected text in XEmacs pastes into any X
program with the middle button or C-v. It also works that way between
XTerms and XEmacs. On both systems I have the XTerm selectToClipboard
resource set to 'true'. On Mac X11 highlighted (i.e. selected) text in
an XTerm or in any other X11 application (e.g. XEmacs or Mozilla 1.7.13)
pastes into any other X11 application with a middle click or the paste
command (happens to be Alt-V from my xmodmap and xresources settings).
--
Dr. Robert Delius Royar Associate Professor of English
Morehead State University Morehead, Kentucky
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