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Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard
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LEE Sau Dan |
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Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard |
Date: |
13 Jan 2004 23:19:41 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
>>>>> "Tim" == Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:
Tim> Seems to work correctly in both directions on OS X 10.3.2
Tim> (although it takes a little getting used to, the Mac OS
Tim> cut/copy/paste conventions do not include automatic copying
Tim> to the clipboard)
There is no "automatic copying to the clipboard" in X. The X paradigm
is: select-and-paste, not copy-and-paste. There is no "copying" in
the process, and no clipboard is involved. Say it is "automatic
copying" is simply wrong.
(Yes, if you like, you can launch 'xclipboard' to emulate a clipboard
into which you can copy. But that's just an emulation on top of the
select-and-paste paradigm.)
This is arguably more efficient, because the copying is skipped. So,
the X-clients won't transfer large amounts of selected but never
pasted data. The data is transfered only when it is pasted.
--
Lee Sau Dan 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Kester Clegg, 2004/01/15
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Jens Schmidt, 2004/01/13
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Kester Clegg, 2004/01/15
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/16
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, LEE Sau Dan, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Maurizio Loreti, 2004/01/13
- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Gian Uberto Lauri, 2004/01/13
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- Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard, Kester Clegg, 2004/01/15