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Epoch cut+paste questions

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From: Jonas Jaernestroem TG/HK
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:43
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Lupe wrote:
	- Click on the 'C' in "Christopher", above.
	- Click right on the space after "Christopher".
	* "Christopher" gets underlined.
	- Hit C-w.
	* "Christopher" disappears (to the kill ring).
	- Hit C-y.
	* "ChristopherChristopher" appears.

I still cannot reproduce it. As I said in last mail, killing the region
with C-w creates a new entry on the kill-ring, separated from the previous
entry with the same contents created by the mouse-button. So each time you
cut you'll get redundandy in kill-ring but thats harmless.

   Can you please supply information on your Epoch version and the
   platform it is running on?

Epoch 3.2.2, Sun sparc SLC, OS 4.1.1, OpenWindows 2.0
Im an ignorant man on Epoch mouse setup, and I assume Im using the
"standard" setup. My mouse.el is 8398 bytes and probably standard. I
have a newer sun-mouse.el but I doubt it is used by epoch.

   It is counter-intuitive on Open Windows. You have to hit the "Copy" or
   the "Cut" keys to put something marked with the mouse on the
   clipboard. Then you retrieve it with the "Paste" key.  This behaviour
   was inherited from SunView. Normal X (and I believe, Motif) use the
   primary selection for pasting, and the mouse for "pasting".  I have
   changed the mouse keys to the Open Windows settings (Select, Extend,
   Menu (well, it's not used right now).

Im sure you can setup the "cut" "paste" & "copy" keys to do what you
want provided you have the knowledge. In general, Im not sure its
necessary for epoch to comply 100% with the peculiarities of OpenWindows
or SunView. About 90% of the cut/paste operations that I do, I do in
the text editor. If its possible, Im happy to skip an explicit "copy" (M-w)
in this process.

Jonas Jaernestroem Ericsson Telecom Sweden. jonas@ericad.ericsson.se
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