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Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> "X11 programs have a second way of copying and pasting text", so the
> first method is not a hack (sorry), however, many X11 applications do
> not bother with the first method. For example, xterm doesn't have an
> "edit", "copy", or "paste" on all flavors of unix - try using them in
> dtterm on Solaris and you'll see how useless the "first method" is
> when you can't cut/paste consistently between different programs
> (cut/copy some text, then try to paste it into gnome/kde/gtk/qt
> applications).
>
> xchat is typical software that doesn't do the "edit" menu.
> http://xchat.org/faq/#q24 (nor does it provide keyboard mapping for
> cut/copy/paste - your WM or OS must do that).
>
> The standards doc might be anal about what is "first" and "second",
> but in the real world the "second way" is what seems to be universal.
I'm using unix operating systems for a long time now and I feel pretty
comfortable with using left-mouse and middle-click to select and copy.

Nevertheless working with Eclipse (under Linux) I got used to 'select
source - Ctrl-c - select destination - Ctrl-v' (overwrite destination
with source). This worked fine for me e.g. in SuSE 9.x and SuSE 10.x and
I would like to know, why I can't work like this on my shiny favourite
Linux OS (that is: Gentoo).

Cheers, Heinz
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