On Fri, Feb 20, 2015, at 01:50 PM, random...@fastmail.us wrote: > Another reason to leave it as-is is that, while in other applications it > is reasonable to select text for some purpose other than copying it > (e.g. to delete it or replace it), people will not want their clipboard > obliterated in this case. However, in a terminal emulator, the only > thing you can do with selected text is copy it.
It is true that the only reason I select text in st is to copy it, but I still don't want it clobbering my clipboard. The only reason I select text in xterm is to copy it, and I appreciate that doing so only affects the primary selection. That is the way well behaved X applications are supposed to work. > PuTTY on MS Windows puts selected text immediately in the clipboard and > apparently no-one has ever objected to this behavior - if anyone had I'm > sure they would have added it to the dozens of configurable options it > already has. Putty on MS Windows is not an X application. As far as I know, Windows has only one selection (to use the X terminology): the clipboard. So I don't see the point of comparing it. -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are
