>> pasted elsewhere, once it is deselected it does not work anymore. Later it >> was changed so that the last selection can always be pasted (if no other >> app has a newer selection). This is called the "persistent selection". >> This worked fine after the initial implementation by Bo and me, but some >> time before 1.5 was released we found out that it slowed down large >> selections too much. I don't remember what was done to resolve that >> problem.
The initial implementation copies a selection whenever it is created. This is slow because a selection will be copied several times when it is created by continuous mouse or keyboard actions. I changed the implementation to copy a selection when it is deleted and fixed the slow-down. I do not know who broke this feature. Bo
