Subject: Re: bug with clipboard
From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Thu Nov 22 2001 - 05:54:51 CST
> > (but imho we should always support the unix way when
> > feasible since it's
> > more user friendly to select (autocopy) and paste
> > than select, copy, and
> > finally paste).
I hate this Unix behaviour. The 'select=autocopy' makes it
impossible to paste over a selection; I do this all the time and in
'normal' Unix applications this requires that I delete the text to be
replaced character by character in order not loose the text on the
clipboard. As irritating this might be for manual editing, even more
critically, if creating a selection changes the clipboard, it becomes
virtually impossible for a script automating the wordprocessor
behaviour to use the clipboard for anything but trivial tasks. I feel
very strongly that we should have select-copy-paste behaviour as
the default on all platforms including Unix; I find the fact that this is
not the 'normal' way on Unix of little significance, since the 'normal'
Unix way is extremely restrictive. I, of course, have no objection to
having a preference that allows the user to switch to the 'normal'
Unix way.
Also, I think with a feature like this, which is used all the time, our
first priority should be consistency across platforms, and only then
consistency with the platform standard; I use AW both on win32
and Unix, and I would find it extremely contraproductive if I had to
use a different copy/paste mechanism on each platform.
Tomas
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