copy paste problem

[Scott Tringali]

Joerg Fischer wrote:

> This applies only if you try to copy and paste between nedit and
> some other program. (Which necessarily fails if the other program
> doesn't use the xclipboard, for instance if it isn't an X client.) 
>
> If you stay inside nedit, lesstif is surely not the source of the
> problem. I would call a lesstif version where you couldn't copy
> and paste inside nedit unusable.

That's not true.  When tex is copied to the clipboard, we don't know 
beforehand what application it will be pasted into.  Thus, Motif's 
system routines to populate the X clipboard are used.  If they're 
broken, the clipboard is broken, both inside and outside NEdit.