Beats me -- it works okay with emacs.  (At last!  Clear proof that emacs
is better!!)

It doesn't work at all from Squeak to Opera, however, which can be
irritating.

For what it's worth, XWindows cut and paste actually is pretty
complicated.  There is no actual clipboard, if that gives you any idea
of the difficulties.  It looks like some programs want a slightly
different flavor of cut-and-paste than what Squeak/Unix does right now. 
Any XWindows hackers are heartily invited to take a look at sqXWindow.c
and see if you can figure out what the problem is!


Lex



John Hinsley <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk> wrote:
> Here's a peice of wierd behaviour I noted. AFAIK it applies only to
> Squeak on *nix. 
> 
> I evaluate some code in a workspace. Rather than type it out again so I
> can write it up I highlight it, do alt+c, click to another window where
> Gvim lies patiently waiting and use the middle mouse button to paste it. 
> 
> But the first character invariably gets lost! So, if I've copied:
> 
> myDictionary:= Dictionary new.
> myDictionary at: 'Tunde' put: 27; at: 'Jill' put: 23; at: 'John' put:
> 49.
> 
> I get:
> 
> yDictionary:= Dictionary new.
> myDictionary at: 'Tunde' put: 27; at: 'Jill' put: 23; at: 'John' put:
> 49.
> 
> Now, I only get this in Gvim (Netscape doesn't loose anything, for
> example) and I only get it in Gvim when I'm copying and pasting from
> Squeak. 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
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