Re: Bump: Horrible frustrating copy/paste nightmares
Re: Bump: Horrible frustrating copy/paste nightmares
- Subject: Re: Bump: Horrible frustrating copy/paste nightmares
- From: Bill Janssen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:08:16 PDT
- Comments: In-reply-to Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> message dated "Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:05:08 -0700."
> > Any further thoughts? I bring this up because this issue frustrates
> > me and wastes my time 10 or more times PER DAY, at work, at home,
> > and even
> > at sleep.
>
> Sorry. How does this actually affect you directly? I don't really
> see how it would have a usability implication, and knowing that will
> probably help me make a better system.
I have this problem, too, though probably differently. I use X11 GNU
Emacs for email, and Camino for a browser, and am forever wanting to
take some text in Emacs and paste it into Camino. To do this, I ESC-w
the text I want to copy, which puts it at the front of the Emacs
kill-ring, and apparently sets the PRIMARY X11 selection to it. I
then switch to the room I run Camino in, and xclipboard as well, and
use the middle mouse button to paste the PRIMARY selection into
xclipboard. Then I can finally use CMD-V to paste it into Camino.
For Emacs, this was (finally) easy to fix, after Emacs 22 came out,
which provided a variable to also have it set the CLIPBOARD, as well
as PRIMARY selection, but it's an issue overall.
Adam's original suggestion was, "setting the PRIMARY selection in X11
should also copy it into the Apple clipboard", I believe, and I agree
that that would be a great option to have.
Bill
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