On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:23:53AM +1800, Bo Peng wrote:
> >> I think middle-button-paste should keep lyx formating, if this can be
> >> done properly, in terms of inter-application paste. Actually, I do not
> >> mind at all that xterms paste lyx selection with extra stuff like
> >> \begin{table}.
> >
> >I would mind personally.
>
> OK, we need internal selection for windows, we want internal selection
> formated, and we do not really need to sync internal and external
> selection. So, if it is not too difficult, feel free to put pure text
> to external selection and formated text to the internal one.
>
> BTW, http://doc.trolltech.com/4.2/qclipboard.html says that we can put
> Mime data to system clipboard. Can we unify our internal clipboard
> buffers as system clipboard under differnt mime formats?
The problem is that there is no textual representation of
something like a 'part of a .lyx file' (yet). So we can't
'just store some kind of string representing our data'
in an 'external' utility.
Andre'
