Re: mswindows-get-clipboard broken in beta 15?

Saturday, 5 June 1999

        Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas(a)home.com&gt; writes:

...
 I do not care much about C-c being copy, this is something that can
 be easily customized if needed. The thing I'm talking about here is
 something much more basic. With the latest changes what happens is,
 when under mswindows I *select* text (note - not copy or paste, just
 select), the selection goes into the clipboard, overwriting its
 previous contents. 
This sounds like a bug to me.  Under XEmacs, selecting text will not
overwrite the clipboard contents -- it will merely grab the "primary
selection" (which is separate from the clipboard.)

It is a separate matter that clipboard is rarely used under X, so that
the operation of "pasting" (middle mouse button) first tries to paste
the contents of primary selection.

...
 replacing the new selection with the clipboard contents is
 *impossible*, I cannot even write a new "my-paste" lisp function to
 do that - the XEmacs behaviour is now "consistent" with X selection
 being the same as "clipboard", 
Nope.

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