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Bryan Whitehead wrote: |
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> "X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text", so the |
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> first method is not a hack (sorry), however, many X11 applications do |
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> not bother with the first method. For example, xterm doesn't have an |
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> "edit", "copy", or "paste" on all flavors of unix - try using them in |
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> dtterm on Solaris and you'll see how useless the "first method" is |
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> when you can't cut/paste consistently between different programs |
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> (cut/copy some text, then try to paste it into gnome/kde/gtk/qt |
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> applications). |
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> xchat is typical software that doesn't do the "edit" menu. |
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> http://xchat.org/faq/#q24 (nor does it provide keyboard mapping for |
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> cut/copy/paste - your WM or OS must do that). |
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> The standards doc might be anal about what is "first" and "second", |
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> but in the real world the "second way" is what seems to be universal. |
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I'm using unix operating systems for a long time now and I feel pretty |
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comfortable with using left-mouse and middle-click to select and copy. |
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Nevertheless working with Eclipse (under Linux) I got used to 'select |
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source - Ctrl-c - select destination - Ctrl-v' (overwrite destination |
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with source). This worked fine for me e.g. in SuSE 9.x and SuSE 10.x and |
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I would like to know, why I can't work like this on my shiny favourite |
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Linux OS (that is: Gentoo). |
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Cheers, Heinz |
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