Re: State of the X clipboard, and perhaps a solution

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 15:54, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> select region with left mouse button. switch to other app. middle mouse
> click.
> 
> eg. do things the way the X clipboard was meant to work.

The X primary clipboard sucks for a lot of tasks, unfortunately.  Like
replacing text.  Select data in app A, switch to B, select data in B to
replace, middle-click and... oops.  Switch to B, delete text, switch to
A, select text, switch back to B, hope it's easy to remember where that
deleted text was exactly, middle-click.  Maybe switch back to A and
delete the text if you were trying to cut and not just copy.  Ugh.

Menues and key-bound cut/copy/paste are necessary in a lot of tasks to
avoid the pain and sorrow of middle-click-only paste operations.

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> Jeff
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