copy paste problem

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Scott Tringali wrote (2004-08-30 16:19):
>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.

I read a bit on the use of CLIPBOARD a while ago. As I understand it,
nothing is copied until the content of CLIPBOARD is actually requested
by another widget. So just like with PRIMARY, the two widgets could
arrange the content's format.

What I couldn't quite clarify for myself is Motif's role in this. Does
Motif always do some buffering here, requesting the text in the
process?


Thorsten
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