* On 2012 24 Jan 05:04 -0600, Lex Trotman wrote:
I think you are right, the unix system has been screwed up by trying to emulate the windows system on top of it and no-one is sure what anything is supposed to do, and no-one is sure what the "correct" behavior is (except its whatever I say :) or whatever todays GTK nerd thinks who wasn't born when Unix worked right.
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Heh! Agreed.
Along the same lines a thread popped up on Debian User this morning regarding clipboard issues:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg01828.html
A followup included this link from JWZ's site:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
If I read Jamie's description correctly, what we are seeing happen is applications not holding onto the Primary selection when they should. This may well be a GTK issue and beyond Geany's/Scintilla's control.
- Nate >>