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From: la_carle@sol.brispoly.ac.uk (Les Carleton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Editor with DecWindows
Message-ID: <LA_CARLE.91May8195227@sol.brispoly.ac.uk>
Date: 8 May 91 19:52:27 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jv@mh.nl's message of 7 May 91 12: 12:33 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.

I think you'll find that newer DECwindows apps may use a DECwindows
clipboard instead of the MIT one (may be the wrong term but I am
referring to the buffer where cut text is stored in the X server).
Cutting and pasting between DX apps and X apps worked fine until v4,
but I remember getting some problems after that upgrade.

...Les...
"Trying to master Sunview and failing"