On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:20:06AM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 22-Oct-2001 John Levon wrote: > >> When I highlight something in LyX, it does not seem to be copied to the > >> global selection buffer (ie not pasteable in another app), but it _is_ > >> copied to LyX's buffer. I can hit C-c and then paste via selection > >> paste in another app, but this seems strange and rather unintuitive. > > > > This has been a long term annoyance of mine too. So you have my 2p that it > > is a real bug. > > Nope the text is copied to the X-clipboard ONLY in a copy/cut operation not > on selection. And this is done on purpose because the copiing of selected text > to the clipboard can be quite heavy (think of a external-inset which converts > a graphics to an ascii drawing!). So this is NO bug it's a feature :)
I don't know about you, but when I'm copying text from lyx to other applications, I don't need to convert pictures to ASCII art. Besides, you don't need to do the conversion while you do the selection, only when you press the middle mouse button in the external application (actually, isn't there a problem of implementing this in XForms ?) I think that it is important to have the ability to do the copying without pressing ctrl+C, like any other X application.
