mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

David G. Wonnacott wrote:
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> Second, I am also distressed by the ability to lose data in TexMacs,
> though the mouse-based copy-cut-paste behavior in other unix
> applications such as Emacs is just fine for me. TeXmacs is _not_ the
> same as Emacs, in one very important way: when I want to paste text in
> Emacs, I move the pointer to the right place and click _only_ the
> middle button to paste where the pointer is pointing. In TeXmacs I
> must move the pointer, click the right button to move the insertion
> point, and then click the middle button. If I move the mouse at all
> during that right-button click it becomes a select and data are
> lost. I think there are several ways in which TeXmacs' mouse-based
> selection seems to differ from Emacs', and I always find this
> annoying, but the only place where I've bothered to track down just
> what is the difference.
>
> So I for one would like to see TeXmacs be _more_ like my beloved unix
> applications.

There is another essential difference: Other Unix editors like XEmacs 
have two paste buffers. If you use "cut" and then select some text with 
the mouse, you do *not* lose the contents of the cut buffer.
You can middle-click to paste the mouse selection and you can use 
"paste" to paste the cut buffer; these are separate things. Emacs and 
XEmacs are not so different from the Mac in this respect. Plus of 
course, emacs has the kill ring: If you pasted the wrong thing, you can 
recall previously cut regions and paste them instead.

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Martin