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Date: | Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:53:16 +0000 (GMT) |
From: | Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri AT yahoo DOT it> |
Subject: | R: Should mintty's copy-on-select option be on by default? |
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--- Gio 29/7/10, Andy Koppe ha scritto: > > Thank you for all the answers to my original request > below. This was very instructive. > > In conclusion: > > - to get middle-mouse paste of the selection with > Mintty, Options/Mouse/copy on select had to be checked, > which is not the default. >=20 > Middle button paste really does work fine by default. It > pastes > whatever is in the clipboard. However, when you select > something, it > is not automatically placed in the clipboard unless you > enable 'Copy > on select'. >=20 > This is a difference in approach between Windows and X11: > in X, the > selection is automatically made available for pasting, > whereas in > Windows you need to explicitly copy it to the clipboard > using the Copy > menu command or one of its keyboard shortcuts. The Windows > approach > has the advantage that you can select something without > clobbering the > clipboard content. It has the disadvantage that an > additional action > is required when you just want to copy&paste. >=20 > Mintty currently defaults to the Windows approach. I've > seen enough > questions about this though that I'm thinking about > changing this. >=20 > Selecting without copying isn't actually much use in > mintty, because > the only other thing you can do with a selection is to try > to 'Open' > it. And I guess most users do come from a Unixy > background. >=20 > Opinions? >=20 > Andy >=20 I prefer the X approach as default.=20 I often have both several mintty and Xterm sessions=20 open at the same time, and I prefer the same way of working. Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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