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Re: [TeXmacs] Automatically copying selected text


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  • From: Martin Costabel <address@hidden>
  • To: "David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>
  • Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Automatically copying selected text
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:40:03 +0100
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.

--
Martin


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