Re: ANNOUNCE: gedit 2.0.1

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Peter <pfheiss philonline com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having gedit-0.9.4-3 and what I miss badly is proper copy and paste.
> 
> When I mark a text on xterm or in Mozilla I cannot paste it into gedit. The 
> same is tru for gXedit.
> 
> There is no such problem with kedit, xedit or gvim. 

gedit handles both middle-button paste (the PRIMARY selection)
and the clipboard perfectly as far as I can tell.

 http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt

Explains what proper clipboard operation is under X.

Regards,
                                        Owen