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[Norbert Nemec <address@hidden>]

Hi David,

thanks for looking into it! Unfortunately your patch does not work, 
though :-(

The immediate problem, that would probably fairly easy to solve is that 
the conversion to text does not work (p.e. xclipboard complains when I 
have it running in parallel.

The more fundamental problem is that the distinction between the 
"primary" selection and the "clipboard" selection is not clear.

I think, this needs some serious sorting out. A few-line bugfix might 
solve the immediate problem, but I think TeXmacs never really handled 
cut-and-paste conforming to any standard, so it somehow interacts 
slightly different with every program...

I'll look into it a bit deeper, but I have no idea whether I get 
anywhere before I run out of time...

Greetings,
Norbert




David Allouche wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 20:02, Norbert Nemec <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > Cut and paste certainly is confusing. I spent a few minutes sorting through
> > the current state of affairs, but I didn't get far.
> >
> > For anyone who wants to look into it, a good starting point seems to be:
> >
> >   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ClipboardsWiki
> >
> > I think this is the behavior TeXmacs should aim at as well. Does the current
> > code already try to implement this standard? In that case, it seems to be
> > buggy in some details, but it is hard to sort through the strange behavior
> > in various situations, interacting with various other clients...
> >     
>
> Here is a tentative patch.
>
> I could not test it because any attempt to run a from-source build of
> texmacs gives me the "Fatal error: Tex seems not to be installed
> properly in 'load_tex'". Of course, I have a texmacs package
> installed, so I have all the runtime dependencies. Running Ubuntu
> Intrepid.
>
> At least, it compiles.
>