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19:31:03
slyrus
Ok, no hurry. Just wanted to talk about admich's PR when you have a moment. Great to see movement on scigraph again!
19:31:44
slyrus
You undoubtedly understand the encapsulating-streams stuff better than I do and should weigh in.
20:13:15
scymtym
slyrus: i made some of the same encapsulation changes independently, so unless admich and i are both wrong, something similar is probably a good idea. what i don't like about the pull request is that it mixes several things: 1) encapsulation 2) extensions for clim 2.2 conformity 3) scigraph cleanup
20:23:49
scymtym
regarding clim 2.2, we have to make a decision to what extend we want to support it at some point
20:25:21
jackdaniel
my opinion is that we should suck in what we find convenient into clime package and left everything else
20:26:17
jackdaniel
my impression is that allegro's clim 2.2 adds additional complexity into toolkit which is already bloated and overengineered
20:26:43
scymtym
to put it more bluntly, maybe we should ask admich what subset(?) of clim 2.2 they want to ultimately see supported
5:13:16
loke
What 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)
5:15:42
loke
Or something with the mouse? We already steal Shift-Click on the text... So perhaps Shift RIght-Click?
5:16:49
loke
It'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?
5:18:50
slyrus
I'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).
5:19:50
loke
slyrus: The new stuff is support for the clipboard. C-c (or ⌘-c) copies the content of the selection to the clipboard.
5:22:08
loke
I mean, for anything that supports plain slections (i.e. middle-click) that still works of course.