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

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi Bas,

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 02:52:15PM +0100, Bas Spitters wrote:
> Any news on applying these patches? I did not find them in svn yet.

I am just back from abroad; should be able to find some time next week...

Best wishes, Joris


> 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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