[jed-users] Re: Clipboard problem

[Morten Bo Johansen <mbj@xxxxxxxxx>]

John E. Davis <jed@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The reason you observe this behavior is that when you paste back into 
> the editor, you are actually pasting into the terminal where jed is
> running, such as XTerm. This terminal then sends the pasted characters
> to the input stream as if they were typed directly. In this instance,
> jed detected two characters in the input stream: '(' and ')'. Since
> you assigned the '(' key to insert '()', the input character '('
> triggered the insertion of '()'. The second character in the input
> stream was simply ')', which was inserted as is. Consequently, the
> final result is: '())'.
> 
> Use 'Esc-X paste' before pasting into the editor to avoid this issue.

Thanks for this explanation. I had to be something along those lines. I just
wondered, because if I do the same in the terminal version of Emacs with
e.g.

  (local-set-key (kbd "(") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "()")))
  
I don't get this problem. But I suppose that it will take something at the
source code level in Jed to change it.
  
Thanks,
Morten
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