On 29 July 2010 08:24, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: > Thank you for all the answers to my original request below. This was very > instructive. > In conclusion: > - to get middle-mouse paste of the selection with Mintty, Options/Mouse/copy > on select had to be checked, which is not the default.
Middle button paste really does work fine by default. It pastes whatever is in the clipboard. However, when you select something, it is not automatically placed in the clipboard unless you enable 'Copy on select'. This is a difference in approach between Windows and X11: in X, the selection is automatically made available for pasting, whereas in Windows you need to explicitly copy it to the clipboard using the Copy menu command or one of its keyboard shortcuts. The Windows approach has the advantage that you can select something without clobbering the clipboard content. It has the disadvantage that an additional action is required when you just want to copy&paste. Mintty currently defaults to the Windows approach. I've seen enough questions about this though that I'm thinking about changing this. Selecting without copying isn't actually much use in mintty, because the only other thing you can do with a selection is to try to 'Open' it. And I guess most users do come from a Unixy background. Opinions? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
