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From: kevin@ttidca.TTI.COM (Kevin Carothers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: A Unified Theory of Cut and Paste
Message-ID: <25260@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 05:27:44 GMT
References: <DOWDING.91Mar29112851@palm.ai.sri.com>
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In article <DOWDING.91Mar29112851@palm.ai.sri.com> dowding@ai.sri.com (John Dowding) writes:
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%I am using OpenWindows 2.0, and a variety of applications: cmdtools,
%xterms, xmh, gnuemacs, calentool, plus many of the desk top tools that
%come with Openwindows.  Is there a simple way to be able to cut and
%paste across all these different application types?

 I may be wrong, but I believe the answer is no.
 Xterm & Emacs utilize different selection property atoms  (XA_PRIMARY, etc)
 than calentool/cmdtool/shelltool clients (XV_DO_DRAG_LOAD, XV_DO_DRAG_COPY).

 Selection algorithms are (unfortunately)  pretty different between X11 &
 OpenWin. At least they look pretty different to me after running xscope
 across a variety of clients.

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Kevin Carothers   {csun,psivax,philabs,retix}!ttidca!kevin