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Subject: RE: Copy and Paste into Console
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:04:09 -0800
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From: "Stephan Mueller" <smueller AT microsoft DOT com>
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" From: Gary R. Van Sickle [mailto:g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net] 
" > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On 
" > 2) Why does "paste-from-clipboard" stop just before the first
newline 
" > in the clipboard contents while middle-mouse pastes the entire 
" > contents? Is there another undocumented clipboard pasting readline 
" > primitive that pastes the entire clipboard? (Running strings on 
" > /lib/libreadline.a suggests there is not.) Is this a bug, or
intended 
" > behavior?
"
" I have absolutely no idea.  Wasn't there when it happened ;-).

Random speculation.

Paste-from-clipboard is a read-line function.  Being line-oriented, it's
perhaps even by design that it opens the clipboard, gets only one line
from it, and inserts that into the editing buffer.

Middle-mouse, on the other hand, is producing a stream of input events
for the window being pasted to.  The app being pasted to doesn't know
the difference between middle-mouse and a user typing really fast.

> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA

Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.

stephan();
Geek.  Nerd. :-)

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