Bryan Whitehead wrote:
"X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text", so the
first method is not a hack (sorry), however, many X11 applications do
not bother with the first method. For example, xterm doesn't have an
"edit", "copy", or "paste" on all flavors of unix - try using them in
dtterm on Solaris and you'll see how useless the "first method" is
when you can't cut/paste consistently between different programs
(cut/copy some text, then try to paste it into gnome/kde/gtk/qt
applications).
xchat is typical software that doesn't do the "edit" menu.
http://xchat.org/faq/#q24 (nor does it provide keyboard mapping for
cut/copy/paste - your WM or OS must do that).
The standards doc might be anal about what is "first" and "second",
but in the real world the "second way" is what seems to be universal.
I'm using unix operating systems for a long time now and I feel pretty
comfortable with using left-mouse and middle-click to select and copy.
Nevertheless working with Eclipse (under Linux) I got used to 'select
source - Ctrl-c - select destination - Ctrl-v' (overwrite destination
with source). This worked fine for me e.g. in SuSE 9.x and SuSE 10.x and
I would like to know, why I can't work like this on my shiny favourite
Linux OS (that is: Gentoo).
Cheers, Heinz
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