On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:50:22PM -0400, Brian Rectanus wrote:
> When I highlight something in LyX, it does not seem to be copied to the
> global selection buffer (ie not pasteable in another app), but it _is_
> copied to LyX's buffer. I can hit C-c and then paste via selection
> paste in another app, but this seems strange and rather unintuitive.
This has been a long term annoyance of mine too. So you have my 2p that it
is a real bug.
> selections copied to the global selection buffer? I am mostly just
> curious why it was implemented this way?
traditionally, lyx has had issues with cut and paste in certain scenarios
(I don't know why, I'm too new to the code)
> 1) Select some text with mouse.
> 2) Paste said text into ERT inset (now pasted text is highlighted).
> 3) Place cursor somewhere else in ERT inset (highlight still there).
>
> Interestingly, if I then do the same thing, but this time paste the text
> next to previously pasted text, the pasted text is not highlighted at
> all. There is some randomness here also.
there are currently many problems to do with highlighting (or drawing of highlighting)
regards
john
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