On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 05:08:14PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We finished the merging, and the current cvs should be stable.
> We found one problem at the last minute:
>
> - When you select external insets, it invokes the external programs
> to convert the inset to ascii format. This is done to provide the
> X selection. This can be a slow operation, so at some point in the
> future the selection code should be lazy instead of eager.
> You are more than welcome to look into this.
One possible way for lazy selection code is to copy the selection to the
clipboard only when a (Workarea) LEAVE event happens.
(maybe an UNFOCUS event is better, but it seems that these events are not
handled in LyX).
Attach is a patch that does that (I also added missing #include <config.h>
in few files).
patch.gz
