On 7/29/2010 7:02 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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?
I prefer the X behavior personally. -Jeremy -- 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
