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["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

I think it would be great to have separate mouse and keyboard
clipboards, or to make the behavior just like emacs (with an option to
set it to be just like mac/windows, while we're at it).  But then
again, I'm not volunteering to do the programming :-) It's always nice
to imagine what you'd like when someone else is doing the hard work.

At the moment, I'm can't think of any applications/systems in which
copied and deleted text go into separate clipboards. Are you thinking
of anything in particular? Or some other way to avoid overwriting
copied text with deleted text?

Dave W

   Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:27:18 +0100
   From: Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>
   Sender: address@hidden
   Cc: "David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
      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
   >
   >