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[Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>]

Maybe this is the solution: since it seems that people using the
mouse-based X behaviour do not bother to paste with Ctrl-V and that
people using CUA bindings do not expect the middle button to paste
their recently Ctrl-C'ed text, the best thing to do would be to make
the mouse cut'n paste independent from the keyboard-based cut'n paste.

In any case, it is far more annoying for me that if you do a copy to
clipboard, then before pasting you delete something, the clipboard
gets overwritten with the deleted text.

'A.

On 1/17/06, Martin Costabel <address@hidden> wrote:
> David G. Wonnacott wrote:
> []
> > 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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