> 1. acme -c1 /rc/bin/termrc /rc/bin/cpurc > 2. Highlight the second line of termrc (# terminal startup) > 3. Highlight the second line of cpurc (# cpu server start up) > 4. 2-click Snarf in the termrc tag line > 5. mouse-1-3 to paste into the termrc tag line > > You will see that Snarf in the termrc window grabbed the > highlighted text from the cpurc window. > > acme(1) is ambiguous -- it simply says: > Snarf > Place selected text in snarf buffer. > > But which selected text? We seem to be assuming it means the selected > text in the window where you clicked Snarf. Otherwise why have a > Snarf in every window's tag? But in fact it seems to be the text > which was most recently selected, regardless of which window or tag > line it is in.
Aha. This bug was introduced in December 2005 trying to fix a different bug. I never copied the bug fix into the p9p acme so that's why I couldn't reproduce it in casual testing. Will have to think harder about this; thanks for the test case. Russ
