Copy and Paste [LWN.net]

Copy and Paste

Posted Nov 7, 2010 15:23 UTC (Sun) by ccurtis (guest, #49713)
In reply to: So much for edit buttons... by i3839
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

I do not understand what you two are squabbling about.

If an application builds a MIME message for each Cut/Copy operation, and receives a MIME message for each Paste, why does this not work?

The creator of the message can (in the case of a PDF reader, for example) present both text and pbm versions; the receiver of the message can take the text/plain part (if an xterm) or the image/pbm part (if an image editor), or prompt the user for the format they want if it so desires.

How the message is stored is immaterial - disk file, network server, whatever - why would this "text only" interface not work?

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Copy and Paste

Posted Nov 7, 2010 15:30 UTC (Sun) by ccurtis (guest, #49713) [Link]

Bah. I didn't realize 90% of this article's comments are about C&P; I thought I reached the end of the thread. Sorry for the noise.

Now, why are threaded discussions on LWN so hard to follow - it should be easy! ;-)