5:13:16lokeWhat would be a good way to transfer the selected text to the clipboard? (i.e. what in Windows/GNOME is achieved by pressing Control-C, orin OSX by pressing ⌘-C)
5:13:55lokeI'll progrbably add an interactor command for it (“Copy Selection”)
5:16:49lokeIt's something that until now simply hasn't been supported, so except for the interactor command, it's something that doesn't have an analogue in older CLIM applications, I think?
5:18:50slyrusI'm a big fan of selecting text and then using the middle button to "paste" said text. Not sure what the magic under the covers is but that sequence just worked for me on thunderbird (to select text from my IRC window) and emacs (to "paste" the text using the middle mouse button).
5:19:09lokeslyrus: That uses the selection only. That is not changing.
5:19:50lokeslyrus: The new stuff is support for the clipboard. C-c (or ⌘-c) copies the content of the selection to the clipboard.
5:20:36slyrusOK. Like I said, I don't understand the details here :) It should just "work".
5:20:59lokeslyrus: So you mean you want to be able to press Control-C?
5:21:37slyrusThat would be nice, but I can see how that might be overloaded.
5:22:08lokeI mean, for anything that supports plain slections (i.e. middle-click) that still works of course.