Re: Cut-Copy/Paste behavior

Thus quoth Jay Smith on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:16:02PM -0400:
> Daniel,
> 
> What I don't understand (because my 2-button + wheel/button mouse is not 
> working [configured?] properly) is: Since simply highlighting text DOES put 
> content into *some* buffer, does using the middle mouse button to do the 
> pasting, cause the *correct* content to be pasted?
> 
> What I mean is that if I get focus on the source window and it has 
> highlighted text and I then get focus on the target window and it also has 
> some ALREADY highlighted text, the highlighted text in the target window 
> goes into *some* buffer.

If you select a piece of text by dragging, that will go into the buffer, and
the previous selection deselected. If you are using Cygwin the situation is
more complicated. 

Many applications, from 'vi' to 'gimp', implement their own copy buffers, in
addition to what X uses. For instance StarOffice started out as a Windows
application, and reimplements that convention.

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

-- 
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	nee, windows.
	van microsoft?
	nee, van glas.