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xwinclip: unable to paste INTO a highlighted area (linux -> linux and windows -> linux)
- From: Jay Smith <jay at JaySmith dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:22:05 -0400
- Subject: xwinclip: unable to paste INTO a highlighted area (linux -> linux and windows -> linux)
- Organization: Jay Smith and Associates
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi,
I know that "copy highlighting" has been discussed to death, but I have not
found any recent references to the problem of, WITHIN LINUX or from WINDOWS
TO LINUX, not being able to do a copy and *then* highlight an area and
*paste* into the highlighted to *replace* the highlighted text.
If I copy/paste from Linux -> Windows95, it works properly, I can highlight
source text and then highlight the target and paste into the target thus
replacing the highlighted text in the target with the source text.
However, if I am copy/pasting between two LINUX applications, i.e. Mozilla
Mail, anytime I highlight anything, that goes into the "buffer". If I
highlight target text that I want to replace with source text I have
copied, the source text that I originally copied is gone and instead the
text in the target is in the buffer.
If I am copy/pasting from Windows95 -> Linux I also have the problem.
The bottom line is that for linux -> linux copy/paste, xwinclip *breaks*
the copy/paste behavior in Linux. Without xwinclip, I can highlight target
text and replace it with source text that I have copied by highlighting and
doing a ctrl-c.
I find it odd that this problem has not *seemed* to get more attention. 95%
of the copy/paste that I do involves a) copying source text, b) then
highlighting another block of text (i.e the target), and c) pasting the
copied source text into the highlighted target.
Because of this problem, I have to reverse the order of things (not
natural) and delete the text in the target area before pasting into the
target area. If I am doing repeated pastes of the same content, perhaps
into multiple documents, this is a huge pain.
I understand that xwinclip seems to use the concept that any text
highlighted is automatically copied. I suppose that the reason for this
has to do with various applications using different ctrl and alt keystrokes
for their own purposes. For example, a ctrl-c in a kshell cancels the
command line.
However, there really should be a way to deal with this problem. Is there
and I have just missed it?
Maybe if some ctrl-alt-shift, etc., key was held down while highlighting,
that action would block xwinclip from putting the highlighted text into the
buffer.
My environment is:
Windows 95 running Cygwin ....
XFree86-base 4.2.0-1
-lib 4.2.0-5
-xserv 4.2.0-28 (that's what it says: 28)
-xwinclip 4.2.0-8
I am using XDM to get to RedHat Linux 8 which has been kept up to date,
using up2date, to just BEFORE the point a couple weeks ago that they
screwed things up with the glib disaster. (I feel like I have been
Microsoft'ed; my faith in RH has been devastated.)
Any ideas/suggestions or fixes? If more environment info is needed, please
advise.
Jay
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