On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:30:26PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 10:50:21AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: [...] > >> 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).
I think this is in the eye of the beholder. I would like to have that bug back again ;-) > > 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. The fact that selecting something in a UNIX application built for Windows automatically copies it to the clipboard should mean something, I think. So, the old behaviour in LyX was indeed sane and the new one is a bug ;-) -- Enrico
