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[David Allouche <address@hidden>]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 16:21 +0800, Valery Pipin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mar, 22 de Noviembre de 2005, 2:04, Juan Pablo Romero dijo:
> > > I've just realized that it is impossible to copy text from texmacs to
> > > another X program, using C-c , C-v, or am I getting something wrong?
> You can use the middle mouse button as temporal solution. 
> >
> > I have the same problem and it's quite annoying. I cannot paste a text
> > from another X program either. I use KDE as desktop.
> Don't give way to despair!
> Pasting from (to) emacs(gtk2)  works in both direction. 
> Coping from ( not to) the native kde application such as kate or kmail also 
> work perfect. Coping from lyx-qt also works for me. 
> I'm using mouse and kde3.4.1 desktop manager.

Last time I looked at the code, TeXmacs was aggressively using the
"PRIMARY" X buffer, which is what is used with X-style copy-paste
(select text to copy, middle click to paste).

What most people expect from copy-pasting being so different from that,
modern toolkits seem to use the "CLIPBOARD" X buffer for that purpose.

Here's a page I found which appears to quickly summarise the issue.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html

Maybe it's not the current bug in TeXmacs, but it would be a place to
start for somebody willing to try fixing the issue.
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