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- From: steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: copy n paste with x-apps?
- Keywords: X cut copy paste
- Message-ID: <k0MQrAKCBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 17:11:48 -0800
- References: <1992Dec29.190718.12787@informix.com>
- Organization: The GRAFex Company
- Lines: 66
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- In <1992Dec29.190718.12787@informix.com> cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) writes:
- >We find a lot of restrictions/contradictions with copying text between
- >applications on a Sun platform. I would really appreciate any advice
- >and hints on how to make this work more predictably or regularly.
- ]...[
-
- >"Hilite Copy":
- > if you hilite ascii text in the window of ANY application,
- > you can paste a copy of the hilited text into the window
- > of an X-app or Frame, using middle-click. This lets you
- > bring ascii text into Frame.
- >
- > Sun tools treat middle-click as "extend selection" and do
- > not paste. Thus you can copy *from* a sun app this way, but
- > cannot copy *to* one.
-
- Try using the keyboard combo meta-y.
-
- >"Clipboard Copy":
- > if you copy text to Frame's clipboard with Edit:copy
- > (or key equivalent), and provided that you have NO text
- > hilited in ANY window, you can paste the clipboard text
- > into an X-app using middle-click. Only the text is pasted,
- > no formatting. Sun tools ignore this text also.
-
- Meta-y should work here, too.
-
- >What does not work:
-
- >"Formatted Copy":
- > we can't find a way to copy text out of Frame and then back,
- > preserving its formatting. Only the raw ascii is copied.
- > The hex values of at least some special symbols are preserved,
- > though unprintable in other apps, and can be copied back.
-
- Yup.
-
- >"Sun Apps Copy":
- > we can't make the Sun apps based on the Open Windows text
- > widget communicate well. You can copy *from* one into Frame
- > using Hilite Copy, but you can't copy *to* one in any way.
- > Thus you cannot copy a Frame paragraph and paste it into
- > a letter you are composing with MailTool.
-
- Works for under X11R4 using twm.
-
- >"Sun Cut/Copy/Paste":
-
- > The Sun apps seem to have their own private clipboard. You
- > can use the Cut/Copy/Paste function keys to pass data
- > between Sun apps, but this text has no relation to
- > the Frame clipboard or the X selection.
-
- > You can make the Cut/Copy/Paste keys work as macro triggers
- > and thus make them perform Frame cut/copy/paste logical
- > functions, but this has no relation to the Sun app functions.
-
- Once again, try meta-y to paste into Maker.
-
- steve
-
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