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- From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: Re: copy n paste with x-apps?
- Keywords: X cut copy paste
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.173401.5197@informix.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:34:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.190718.12787@informix.com> <k0MQrAKCBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- In article <k0MQrAKCBh107h@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US> steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB) writes:
- >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.
-
- For most of these, steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
- suggested:
-
- >Try using the keyboard combo meta-y...
- >Once again, try meta-y to paste into Maker.
-
- Well, it appears that in Frame, meta-y is the same as middle-click.
- That is, it pastes a copy of the text that is currently hilited
- in any other window. That's useful to know, but as far as I can
- see, it only duplicates what middle-click already gave me.
-
- It does not let me paste text from the Sun text-widget (textedit,
- mailtool, cmdtool) clipboard. For instance, hilite text in a
- cmdtool window and press Copy. Now un-hilite the text (this is
- important). Go into Frame and hit meta-y; nothing happens.
-
- Also meta-y has no effect on a Sun app window; that is, it does
- not let me paste from Frame into a mailtool window. All it does
- is type the letter "y" in the mailtool window.
-
- Thanks for trying, tho.
-