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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

David Allouche wrote:

> 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.
>  
Thank you for this pointer, I will have a serious look
at this problem at some point (these X cut & paste are
a real mess !).

Best, Henri