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From: | Bas Spitters |
Subject: | Re: [Texmacs-dev] Patches: copy/paste and selection handling. |
Date: | Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:52:15 +0100 |
User-agent: | KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.2.0; i686; ; ) |
Any news on applying these patches? I did not find them in svn yet. > Just for curiosity: Has anybody out there looked at these patches at > all? I'm a bit surprised about the silence over this issue that I > believe to be rather central to the every day user experience. > > Greetings, > Norbert > > Norbert Nemec wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > following the bugfix two days ago, I have now finally sat down and > > tried to clean out the annoyingly non-standard behavior of TeXmacs in > > terms of selection handling and cut-and-paste. Resulting are the three > > attached patches that handle mostly independent issues. Each patch has > > an explanation included in the header. > > > > To begin with: I am used to the Windows/KDE/Gnome standard behavior > > which is very different from that of Emacs. I believe the patches in > > their current form will work in Emacs mode as well, but I would ask > > some of the true Emacs users to try these patches. > > > > The first patch should be pretty much invisible if you don't use > > X11-style mouse-select-and-middle-button-paste. If you do use this, > > you should find the new behavior identical to that in other common > > editors. If you have xclipboard, klipper or any similar clipboard > > manager running, please check how it might interfere with the > > inter-program cut-and-paste. > > > > The second patch makes selections generally non-persistent (i.e. text > > is unselected as soon as cursor is moved). This is the standard set by > > Windows and adopted by freedesktop.org (i.e. KDE, Gnome, etc.). If > > anybody has a good reason for supporting persistent selections, please > > bring it forward. > > > > The third patch does away with the annoying habit of TeXmacs > > overwriting the clipboard when you press <delete> on a selection. I > > know that some Emacs users prefer to have their <delete> key bound to > > perform a <cut> operation. If anybody out there thinks this kind of > > behavior should be configurable (or even default in Emacs mode), could > > you please contact me, so we could try to figure out at which place I > > should put a switch. > > > > Please, test these patches thoroughly and give your feedback. This is > > something that will affect every user every day, so it should be > > polished. > > > > Greeting, > > Norbert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Texmacs-dev mailing list > > address@hidden > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > address@hidden > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev |
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