From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Mac p9p snarf buffer
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:21:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070504132106.C2551@mrwint.cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070504000050.GB62050@kris.home>; from bsdaemon@comcast.net on Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:00:50PM -0400
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:00:50PM -0400, Kris Maglione wrote:
>
> As if that weren't bad enough, X11 *also* has central buffers, "cut
> buffers", which are deprecated, but still used by some apps. And there
> are 3 selections, PRIMARY, SECONDARY, and CLIPBOARD. Some apps,
> expecially browsers and Gnome/KDEish apps, tend to use the PRIMARY and
> CLIPBOARD selections, depending on what you're doing (middle click
> pastes the PRIMARY, ^V pastes the CLIPBOARD). It's a terrific mess.
There is an attempt underway to get some sanity in use...
http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-0.1.txt
As to cut buffers, there is no agreed data type in them, so one
cannot know if they are ascii, latin1, utf-8, or something else.
DF
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-04 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-03 21:20 Russ Cox
2007-05-04 0:00 ` Kris Maglione
2007-05-04 12:21 ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2007-05-04 1:16 ` Scott Schwartz
2007-05-04 12:29 ` Derek Fawcus
2007-05-05 2:20 ` Kris Maglione
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-03 16:37 Skip Tavakkolian
2007-05-03 16:45 ` Rob Pike
2007-05-03 17:45 ` David Leimbach
2007-05-03 17:52 ` Rob Pike
2007-05-03 18:09 ` Paul Lalonde
2007-05-03 22:55 ` Kris Maglione
2007-05-04 2:26 ` Russ Cox
2007-05-03 17:03 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-05-03 17:22 ` Russ Cox
2007-05-03 18:02 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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