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> Cut-and-paste in X is so very hateful. For most apps, merely hilighting > text is sufficient to put that text into the "clipboard", thus clobbering > whatever was in there previously. Having a keystroke combination to do > this taskand avoid accidental deletion of data would be too complicated > for the designers of these programs. Having to hit some key to actually copy some selected text is hateful. Having selected text replace what was previously selected rather than just keeping track of the last <n> selections and letting you pop, push, or otherwise molest them is hateful. How it's implemented, whether you copy to a clipboard or just keep a handle that the program can respond to, that's irrelevent. There are systems that do a physical copy when the selection is made, that do a copy if a new selection is made without pasting, that do a copy when the program wants to free its buffer, that never do a copy unless asked by a clipboard manager, and so on. They all manage to suck. > So, xterm is too dumb to keep highlighted text selected if it scrolls up > the screen (even though it *knows* that it's scrolling and it *knows* > exactly where the text you selected ended up) and X is too dumb to use a > real clipboard and manage the data itself, so your selected text has a > tendency to vanish. You're supposed to use a clipboard manager to handle that. The fact that there isn't one by default is hateful, of course, and I'll bet that if you look for one you'll hate all the ones you find you'll hate them too. I know I do.There's stuff above here
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