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[Adam Warner <address@hidden>]

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 13:16, David Allouche wrote:
> On Sunday 24 February 2002 00:45, Adam Warner wrote:
> >
> > What environment do people use to paste source code into TeXmacs? I've
> > tried the code and verbatim environments but both throw away the
> > indenting and carriage returns. Plus the code seems to interact with
> > TeXmacs as well [for example if I paste in this segment: "(if (< (-
> > (length ND0_list) iperiods) t)" then the output becomes: "(if
> > (<expand|(->(define lambdaTech 1.0)"].
> 
> It is not a matter of environment. You must specify the import conversion 
> (here, verbatim) using Edit->import->verbatim before pasting into TeXmacs.

Thanks again David!
 
> I think this is a misfeature, since:
> 
> 1. default conversion conversion for text pasted from other applications 
> should be verbatim, not TeXmacs (that is, mostly no-op) as it is now;

Agreed.

> 2. I believe X clipboard protocol (I do not remember the technical acronym) 
> supports some form of content type negociation, so 1. is not incompatible 
> with having text copied from other TeXmacs instances use, by default, 
> TeXmacs 
> conversion. Maybe this would even allow text copied from LyX to be 
> automatically pasted using the appropriate conversion (LaTeX?)

That would be clever. I'd like to see the option to force the type of
import type remain though.

Regards,
Adam