On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:16:07PM +1800, Bo Peng wrote: > Isn't clipboard/selection separation the standard and preferred > behavior? Let me make it clear: > > selection: mouse select copy, middle-button paste selected text from > lyx (all platforms) or other applications (X11 only),
This is currently not the the case on Windows. Selection does not copy to the clipboard, even with the patch by Abdel. I would like that not to be true, but I agree that the typical Windows user would not expect that. > clipboard: C-c copy, C-v paste, all use system clipboard. > > These two should not interfere with each other. That is to say, C-v > pasting mouse-selected text, and middle-button pasting C-c copied text > are both *not* allowed. You can see that there is no room for our > weird 'external paste'. > > We have discuss another issue: whether mouse-selection should be > cleared with left button click. Some X11 applications allow you have a > permanent selection buffer that your mouse-selection will be available > when the selection is cleared. Some other applications do not. Lyx has > the latter and I like the former behavior, especially because the > former can make between-windows middle-button paste easier to > implement. (Right now: selection is cursor dependent and selection in > one window can not be pasted to another window, which has its own > cursor/selection). All I can say is that I liked the 1.4.x and older version behaviour much more. Version 1.5 on Windows now has serious usability problems for me. IMO, this selection/clipboard separation only evidences the brain dead design of Windows. Hey! Now I got you Georg ;-) -- Enrico
