Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!squirrel!pronto!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Editor with DecWindows Message-ID: <1991May7.121233.13238@pronto.mh.nl> Date: 7 May 91 12:12:33 GMT References: <1991May2.150153.18386@cm.cf.ac.uk> <1991May6.132302.11959@pronto.mh.nl> <1991May6.123655@wsl.dec.com> Sender: jv@pronto.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Automation, the Netherlands Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: gringort@wsl.dec.com's message of 6 May 91 19:36:55 GMT In article <1991May6.123655@wsl.dec.com> gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) writes: > This isn't true. DECwindows uses the same selection mechanism as MIT. > I regularly cut and paste between DEC and MIT apps and it works just fine. > Have you actually tried this? Yes. And I stopped using it since I get unpredictable results. Sometimes I can select (= make black) a piece of text and paste it into some other window, at other times I get the results of a previous yank instead. And then, dxterm has its own Copy/Paste that uses a different selection buffer that cannot be pasted in other (MIT-based) windows. Try to explain that to novice users. It may work for you, but it is counter-intuitive to me. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via internet backbones Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7, 2803 PL Gouda, The Netherlands phone/fax: +31 1820 62911/62500 ------------------------ "Arms are made for hugging" -------------------------