Re: copy/paste model in exmh

> Joel Hatton wrote:
> 
> > I'm tired of losing my selection every time I change focus, and I
> > really don't care if exmh selections replace my X selection - it's
> > basically what I _expect_ to happen.
> 
> !!!
> 
> Would you mind giving a recipe to duplicate the problem?  I seem to have
> no problem with maintaining selection buffers across focus shifts.  (And
> no, I don't use a cut buffer manager, Gnome, KDE, or other invasive
> interceptor)

Me neither (vanilla standard blackbox) - simple case is: view message in
show pane and make a selection, paste into xterm; change exmh folder,
return to xterm and attempt to paste again - buffer gone.

I should note that this is with 2.7.0 - we've not been able to go to 2.7.2
yet as code changes have broken some of our custom libs and no time to
correct that yet.

cheers,
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