Re: Gnumeric and RHEL3

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Morten Welinder wrote:

> Anything that does not interoperate with the default terminal window 
> (that would be xterm) is broken.  No "ifs" and no "buts" about it.
>
> Thus, Gnome (and not Emacs) is broken in this regard.

Go, Morten!

In more boring moments I might accept that there are points to be made 
on both sides of the issue, but the traditional X copy-paste mechanism 
is so convenient for the practiced user that I second your view.

Given a choice between:

1. Drag with mouse to select (and implicitly copy); click middle-mouse 
to paste; and

2. Drag with mouse to select, Ctrl-C (or drag menu and choose 
Edit/Copy) to copy; focus with mouse then Ctrl-V (or drag menu and 
Edit/Paste) to paste,

it's clear that the former beats the pants off the latter as a snappy 
means of information transfer between apps.  And personally I'm always 
disappointed with an app on my X11 desktop that doesn't honor the 
first protocol.

Allin Cottrell