Re: clipboard [Was: Re: Copy-Paste problem on 5.6 / 5.5]
Joerg Fischer <[email protected]>
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Paul Gevers wrote: > Thanks. About the clipboard, I also found this in the Problems/defects > section of the help: > """ > DEFECT > Cut and Paste menu items fail, or possibly crash, for very large > (multi-megabyte) selections. > > Work Around > Use selection copy (middle mouse button click) for transferring larger > quantities of data. Cut and Paste save the copied text in server memory, > which is usually limited. > """ > > Does this mean that NEdit does NOT use the clipboard (which is very much > like the primary/secondary buffer) in the way it is nowadays meant to be > used? No, this only means this part of the help section is obsolete. Again, NEdit uses only the X selection mechanism. It's all open source, so there are no secrets involved ;-) Cheers, Jörg -- NEdit Discuss mailing list - [email protected] http://www.nedit.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss