Re: Cut and paste between two instances of xjed using Brief emulation fails on Debian Lenny

["G. Milde" <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20.11.08, Delbert Franz wrote:
> Cutting/copying and pasting between two instances of xjed under Debian 
> Lenny (Jed 0.99.18U) using Brief emulation fails to work.  
> The same operation between buffers in one instance works.  

Which functions do you use in your attempts?
(if you use key-combinations, please find out the bindings with 
Help>Describe Bindings).

copy_region() and yp_copy_region_as_kill() are only for local copies.

cua_copy_region() copies also to the system clipboard.


yp_yank() inserts from the local clipboard.

cua_insert_clipboard() inserts the system CLIPBOARD selection


Do you have a Clipboard application running?

Do you know the difference between PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD X-selection?

% From xclip's README:
% 
%   For a good overview of what selections are about, have a look at 
%   <http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt>. Short version:
%   
%   * XA_PRIMARY contains the last text you highlighted
%   * Middle click pastes XA_PRIMARY
%   * XA_CLIPBOARD contains text explicitly copied with Edit | Copy, Ctrl-C etc.
%   * Edit | Paste pastes XA_CLIPBOARD
%   * xclip uses XA_PRIMARY unless you specify otherwise with -selection 
%   * never ever use CUTBUFFERS, they are obsolete and problematic

% which means on X-Windows (xjed or jed in X-terminal):
% * cuamark copy/kill/insert should use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY
%   However, 
%   * x_copy_region_to_selection() and x_insert_selection() use PRIMARY
%   * there are no S-Lang functions to work with CLIPBOARD


> I have also found that the same operation between xjed and other apps
> mostly fails. For example, between Kmail and xjed.

This is a known bug in jed <= 0.99.18, affecting most Qt application
(but also some newer GTK ones).

> Is there a workaround for this?  

Yes, you can use a command line utility from within jed.
See cuamark.sl (from jedmodes.sf.net or Debian package jed-extra).

Günter

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