clipboard [Was: Re: Copy-Paste problem on 5.6 / 5.5]

[Paul Gevers]

>> A related question: can anybody tell me if nedit uses the PRIMARY and
>> CLIPBOARD from X 
> 
> Yes, it does, and also the SECONDARY, cf. help -> basic operations -> selecting text.

Thanks. About the clipboard, I also found this in the Problems/defects
section of the help:
"""
DEFECT
Cut and Paste menu items fail, or possibly crash, for very large
(multi-megabyte) selections.

Work Around
Use selection copy (middle mouse button click) for transferring larger
quantities of data. Cut and Paste save the copied text in server memory,
which is usually limited.
"""

Does this mean that NEdit does NOT use the clipboard (which is very much
like the primary/secondary buffer) in the way it is nowadays meant to be
used? This looks like the (discouraged) cut buffers to me, but I might
be very wrong... Or is this the result of the implementation by the *tif
library? I see that lesstif supports copying by name, I do not no about
motif. It would help me if somebody could explain. Again, I have [1] in
mind.

Paul
[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html