Re: [Texmacs-dev] Patches: copy/paste and selection handling.

[Bas Spitters]

Any news on applying these patches? I did not find them in svn yet.

BTW: Is there any documentation on extending the latex export, there are some bugs I would like to fix, but it seems that I am missing something obvious.

Bas

On Thursday 05 February 2009 16:44:56 Norbert Nemec wrote:
> 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
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