2017-04-17 23:24 GMT+09:00 Manuel Ortega <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Kazunobu Kuriyama <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This is a followup to https://groups.google.com/foru
>> m/#!topic/vim_dev/5RFo3q8xvfo where we talked about the feature list
>> items relevant to Mac:
>>
>> On macOS, what is known as clipboard in our community is called
>> pasteboard.
>>
>
> This is false. In Mac-land, it is called the "clipboard", and has been
> thus for at least 26 years.
>
> If you go into "Mac Help" from the Help menu of the Finder on Sierra, and
> search for "pasteboard", you get one result, and in the text of the body of
> that result it is clear that "clipboard" is the real Mac term. If you
> search for "clipboard", you get several results, including some that don't
> contain "clipboard" but are about copying and pasting. If in Preview.app
> you Cmd-C a region of a photo, the Edit menu gives you the option "New from
> clipboard". Etc., etc., etc.
>
> In the Apple *developer* docs, what is known in user-land as "the
> clipboard" is sometimes called the "pasteboard". But to be intelligible to
> Mac *users*, Vim should call it what *users* call it. It is called the
> "clipboard".
>
> -Manny
>
Ah, you're right. I was somehow bound to os_macosx.m too much where the
clipboard interface is implemented using NSPasteboard and thus seemingly
confused.
How about changing the description in eval.txt from
macunix Compiled for macOS with pasteboard support (default)
to
macunix Compiled for macOS with clipboard support (default)
Do you think it's OK for our users?
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