From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LEE Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs doesn't use the X clipboard Date: 13 Jan 2004 23:19:41 +0100 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040111002614.GM6119@luna.mooo.com> <958686cf.0401130323.64afc317@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-7 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074081314 20894 80.91.224.253 (14 Jan 2004 11:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 14 12:55:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Agjc7-0006Px-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:55:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AgjWo-00072T-M6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:49:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.bme.hu!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120083 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16025 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16025 >>>>> "Tim" == Tim McNamara writes: Tim> Seems to work correctly in both directions on OS X 10.3.2 Tim> (although it takes a little getting used to, the Mac OS Tim> cut/copy/paste conventions do not include automatic copying Tim> to the clipboard) There is no "automatic copying to the clipboard" in X. The X paradigm is: select-and-paste, not copy-and-paste. There is no "copying" in the process, and no clipboard is involved. Say it is "automatic copying" is simply wrong. (Yes, if you like, you can launch 'xclipboard' to emulate a clipboard into which you can copy. But that's just an emulation on top of the select-and-paste paradigm.) This is arguably more efficient, because the copying is skipped. So, the X-clients won't transfer large amounts of selected but never pasted data. The data is transfered only when it is pasted. -- Lee Sau Dan +Z05biGVm-(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee