Re: 'kill-region' replaces primary selection?
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> 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
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We had the experience but missed the meaning.
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