Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:50:21AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
With the current LyX1.5svn build it isn't possible to paste text from the
clipboard to the document. Astonishingly it is possible to paste the text
to the LaTeX preamble of the document but copyying stuff from the preamble
to the document is currently also not possible.
You mean with keyboard shortcuts or also via the menu (Edit->Paste External
Clipboard/Selection->Clipboard as Lines)? If only the former, it's bug 3042
(shortcuts missing for clipboard-paste).
As a matter of fact, "external selection" does not make sense at all on
windows.
I am not sure I agree with this assertion. In 1.4.x and earlier I was
able to select a text in an rxvt (no X11) or xterm (with X11) terminal on
Windows and paste it in LyX by middle mouse button. In a cmd.exe window I
could select a text, press right mouse button to copy it to the clipboard
and still paste it in LyX by middle mouse button.
Sure but everything you described here is using the Windows system
clipboard before going to LyX (even your X11 server on Windows is using
the clipboard externally). The reason why middle-mouse pasting worked on
Windows is because LyX-1.4 was not differentiating the X11 Selection and
Clipboard (and this was a bug).
All of this is not possible anymore in 1.5 and I see it as a regression.
Sure this middle-mouse pasting "feature" could be added back for Windows
and Mac (but not for X11). But still, there is no such Selection concept
under Windows (and Mac I guess) so these two menu items should not
appear there.
Abdel.
