Ned Konz wrote:

>On Thursday 11 April 2002 02:46 pm, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Ned Konz wrote:
>>
>>>Bert suggested making clipboard text *from* Squeak be available
>>>as both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD, and copying only the PRIMARY *to*
>>>Squeak.
>>>
>>>Since this seemed reasonable to me, I did it.
>>>
>>Great! I committed that to SF.
>>
><..munch..>
>
>I could see making a commandline switch to specify which selection is 
>preferred; in my system there is little use for PRIMARY any more.
>
>Interestingly, in the Konsole terminal program, it seems to do an 
>automatic copy to CLIPBOARD when you make a selection. Though this is 
>ugly, it works with the rest of KDE/Qt3.0.
>

My vote is to complete ditch PRIMARY and pretend it doesn't exist, and 
to always use CLIPBOARD for everything.  Or, at the very least, favor 
CLIPBOARD over PRIMARY (copy into both, paste from the one that has 
data-- if both contain data, paste from CLIPBOARD).

No solution is without it's problems, but I'm inclined to think this is 
the least problematic overall (best interoperability with other apps 
overall).

Because of this COPY/PASTE nonsense (not just with Squeak) I find myself 
sometimes pasting into an intermediate app just so I can copy from it to 
paste it into my final target.  Copy/Paste/Copy/Paste when just a single 
Copy/Paste should have been sufficient.  I always wondered why I needed 
to do that-- now I know.  Phewey.

Nevin