- From: Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>
- To: Martin Costabel <address@hidden>
- Cc: "David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Automatically copying selected text
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:27:18 +0100
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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:
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David G. Wonnacott wrote:
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> Second, I am also distressed by the ability to lose data in TexMacs,
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> though the mouse-based copy-cut-paste behavior in other unix
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> applications such as Emacs is just fine for me. TeXmacs is _not_ the
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> same as Emacs, in one very important way: when I want to paste text in
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> Emacs, I move the pointer to the right place and click _only_ the
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> middle button to paste where the pointer is pointing. In TeXmacs I
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> must move the pointer, click the right button to move the insertion
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> point, and then click the middle button. If I move the mouse at all
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> during that right-button click it becomes a select and data are
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> lost. I think there are several ways in which TeXmacs' mouse-based
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> selection seems to differ from Emacs', and I always find this
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> annoying, but the only place where I've bothered to track down just
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> what is the difference.
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> So I for one would like to see TeXmacs be _more_ like my beloved unix
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> applications.
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There is another essential difference: Other Unix editors like XEmacs
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have two paste buffers. If you use "cut" and then select some text with
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the mouse, you do *not* lose the contents of the cut buffer.
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You can middle-click to paste the mouse selection and you can use
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"paste" to paste the cut buffer; these are separate things. Emacs and
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XEmacs are not so different from the Mac in this respect. Plus of
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course, emacs has the kill ring: If you pasted the wrong thing, you can
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recall previously cut regions and paste them instead.
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--
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Martin
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- Re: [TeXmacs] Automatically copying selected text, (continued)
Re: [TeXmacs] Automatically copying selected text, Kamaraju Kusumanchi, 01/17/2006
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