Yep, I'm clearly getting fooled by select-paste, if that's indeed what it's called. But at least when I tried it, pasting from the "clipboard" appeared to paste instead from the selection. Or maybe I was doing it wrong...?
cheers Miller
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 07:10:31PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On Win32 and Mac OS X, pd gets the text from Tcl/Tk using [clipboard get]. It would make things cleaner if everything used the same code. Is there any reason not to make X11 get the data from Tk, if possible?
Most likely Miller is confused because in X11 there are two paste mechanisms, which one could call select+paste and copy+paste. I just used [clipboard get] with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V on Linux and I don't recall anything wrong with it.
The select+paste system instead uses Button-2 (middle-click or thumb-click or wheel-click depending on which mouse) to paste directly from the selection instead of from the clipboard, because then there's no real clipboard in that system.
Right?
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