On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:55:02AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:32:25PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > AFAIK/CT the copying happens automatically out of every app. I've had > > reason to try (except pdf's, images, and the like, of course). > > Okay, I just checked with the only graphical app I had open, > Mozilla-Firebird. Highlighted text is NOT automatically copied. > > Nor in Abiword. > > Nor in Dillo. > > Perhaps you can name a graphical X program that does automatically copy text > to the clipboard by highlighting it?
I don't intend this to be a contest, Carl. If the beginnings of a list is needed, though, include the rest of my post. It is apparent that the function depends on whether any particular app. accesses what Colin labels as the cut-buffer. My awareness of this came from my extensive use of LyX, and the long known (but low grade) issue that its users had with its inability to use exactly that function. As I mentioned earlier, that is now fixed, so it also seems apparent that a working copy/paste is largely due to choice on the programmer's part to make it functional (as long as it doesn't interfere with the rest of the code). Cheers, Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
