On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:32:39 +0900
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:57:48 -0400 Mike Blumenkrantz <m...@zentific.com> said:
> 
> > I'm not claiming that I'll fix any/all of them, but at the least we should
> > compile an actual list of all the cnp bugs that people have noticed. Since
> > I've fixed a ton of them over the past couple days, I'll start:
> > 
> > * newlines are not respected
> 
> how are newlines not respected. i'm copy & pasting between gtk apps with
> editors (my mail client), and my xterms and an entry in elm entry.. and the
> newlines are there as expected. can you come up with some good reproducible
> examples? maybe it's converting to utf8 and using ps's and the other end isnt
> handling it well or something else. i DO notice that it's keeping the
> html-like @quot; insetad of using the ' when its converting.
yep, easy way is just open elm entry notepad test, hit enter a few times, then
select all and cut/paste. fails every time.
> 
> > * middle mouse paste (primary) always overwrites selected text instead of
> >   respecting cursor position
> 
> i actually find the "paste where i middle click" incredibly annoying. elm does
> what x has always done on middle click - paste AT the cursor... i suggest you
> try out xedit... which long preceded anything in gtk... and x11 defined the
> standard for middle button pasting as this. so elm follows that. it's also
> what happens when u middle-paste in an editor in your xterm etc. too, so it's
> consistent behavior. if gtk has decided to diverge.. well... it's going
> against the grain of your terminals and the old middle paste rules defined by
> Xt (see xedit).
Well imo we should at least support this mode and allow the app to choose.
> 
> > ?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mike Blumenkrantz
> > Zentific: Coding in binary since '10.
> > 


-- 
Mike Blumenkrantz
Zentific: Coding in binary since '10.

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