Re: 'kill-region' replaces primary selection?

Saturday, 25 March 2000

        On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; wrote:

...
 Dmitry Yaitskov writes:
  > New users with "Windows background" (and that's the majority of
  > users now) will certainly (IMHO :) expect the yank/kill operations
  > to interact with clipboard.

 Every time I read something like this I think of Abraham putting
 the knife to Isaac's throat.  I think of Yoda saying "Once you
 start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
 Consume you it will!"  I think of the French with their holding
 actions against the English language infestation.  And I despair. 
I think you overstate the case a touch. In any case, might it be
possible to (fear and terror) have the default be the typical default
for the platform:

Under Win32, they do interact.
Under Unix, they do not.

Incidentally, under Win32, the action of deleting text does not modify
the clipboard content at all. The UI guidelines, I believe, even specify
this as a requirement...

        Daniel

-- 
We had the experience but missed the meaning.
        --  T.S. Eliot, _The Dry Salvages_

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