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Re: Copy & Paste bug

To: roy@silicontao.com
Subject: Re: Copy & Paste bug
From: Dennis Payne <dulsi@identicalsoftware.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:20:37 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: xwpe@cs.rpi.edu (Xwpe)
In-Reply-To: <01080208354100.01422@UtopiaPlanitia> from "Roy Souther" at Aug 02, 2001 08:35:41 AM
Sender: owner-xwpe@cs.rpi.edu
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(Sorry for the slow response my ISP decided to shutdown my service for
no good reason.)

> If I select the text at the end of a line, copy it then paste it into the 
> middle of a differnet line, all text to the right of the paste gets deleted.

I have seen problems like this with cut and paste.  Unfortunately I have
not found a consistent method of reproduction.  Until such time I can't
really do much about it.

> How hard would it be to make xwpe use the X clipboard so as to make possible 
> copy and paste between other applications on the desktop?

It wouldn't be too hard but I find the X clipboard to be less reliable
than the xwpe internal version.

Dennis Payne
dulsi@identicalsoftware.com

References:
- Copy & Paste bug
  - From: Roy Souther <roy@silicontao.com>

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