On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:08:33PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 06:22:49PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > Frequently when I select with the mouse and try to paste (middle > > button) into an emacs session it doesn't work the first time, have to > > do it some times several times before it works. Don't know why. > > Because by the time you get to the running emacs, PRIMARY is no longer > asserted by whatever application you'd selected text in. <SNIP> > Second example... you left-mouse-select in xterm, xterm asserts PRIMARY, > you go over to emacs, but in the meantime the xterm has scrolled, the > highlight has gone away, and xterm relinquishes PRIMARY. Now when you > middle-mouse, X has no one to ask for PRIMARY, and so nothing gets pasted. I do that all the time, and it ALWAYS works. The only problem I have is:
1. Select Text 1. Select text 2. 2. Hit Ctrl-C 3. Select Text 3. Select Text 4. Middle Click 4. Hit Ctrl-V You can see how an ex-Windozer can have problems. > The PRIMARY and SECONDARY selections are orthagonal to CLIPBOARD. Yet, Xterm selections go into both. > One of the great reasons why the Gnome developers should be shot on sight > is that they try to hide the fact that there are two mechanisms going on, > thus confusing $LUSER, rather than either actually explaining it, or > ignoring one in favor of the other. I'm not sure what KDE does, but I'm > sure it's every bit as stupid. > > The single best description of how cut and paste actually works in X11 can > be found here: > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
