On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote: > > On 30-Oct-2001 Allan Rae wrote: > > >> A more difficult question, but I would favour unsurprising behaviour. That means > >> that what looks like a selection is a selection (one reason that I think > >> having to ctrl-c something before pasting into an xterm is weird). > > > > Then we'll need to fix things so paste checks to see if a selection > > currently exists and force a copy into the copy buffer before > > attempting to paste. > > I thought we agreed that as soon as someone knows how to inform LyX's core > that someone wants to paste a selection outside LyX we will implement this > properly, didn't we?
This problem is also appropriate for pasting within LyX when a selection has been made but a copy command hasn't been issued. Allan. (ARRae)