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

[Joerg Fischer]

Paul Gevers wrote:

> 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? 

No, this only means this part of the help section is obsolete. Again,
NEdit uses only the X selection mechanism. It's all open source, so
there are no secrets involved ;-)

Cheers,
Jörg