Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 04:30:26PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
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.
No, it just mean that X11 has two different methods for copy&paste and
Windows only one. The Selection method is historical and can be used
with the mouse only.
So, the old behaviour in LyX was indeed sane and the new one is
a bug ;-)
I'm sure that many apps on X11 do merge the two concepts the same as
LyX-1.4 but I think that there are some use cases where differentiating
the two is very useful. Usually, the X11 selection is mostly for
unformatted small portion of text. The Clipbard is for more heavy stuff
(including formatting) or for when you don't want to use the mouse.
As a matter of fact, on Windows, I would like to mimic the X11 selection
when within LyX. This is on my TODO list ;-)
Abdel.
