From exmh-users-admin@redhat.com Mon Sep 23 12:06:23 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7323216F03 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:06:20 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:06:20 +0100 (IST) Received: from listman.example.com (listman.example.com [66.187.233.211]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8N51JC01448 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:01:19 +0100 Received: from listman.example.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2CB43F5C9; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:01:47 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: exmh-users@listman.example.com Received: from int-mx1.corp.example.com (int-mx1.corp.example.com [172.16.52.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40CF63F192 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:00:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by int-mx1.corp.example.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8N50iN18870 for exmh-users@listman.redhat.com; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:00:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.example.com (mx1.example.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8N50hh18866 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:00:43 -0400 Received: from blackcomb.panasas.com (gw2.panasas.com [65.194.124.178]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8N4h5i21940 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:43:05 -0400 Received: from medlicott.panasas.com (IDENT:welch@medlicott.panasas.com [172.17.132.188]) by blackcomb.panasas.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA08762 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 01:00:38 -0400 Message-Id: <200209230500.BAA08762@blackcomb.panasas.com> To: exmh-users@example.com Subject: Re: bad focus/click behaviours In-Reply-To: <25647.1031927295@dimebox> References: <200209131130.g8DBUZL24217@hobbit.linuxworks.com.au.nospam> <25647.1031927295@dimebox> Comments: In-reply-to Hal DeVore message dated "Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:28:15 -0500." From: Brent Welch X-Url: http://www.panasas.com/ X-Face: "HxE|?EnC9fVMV8f70H83&{fgLE.|FZ^$>@Q(yb#N,Eh~N]e&]=>r5~UnRml1:4EglY{9B+ :'wJq$@c_C!l8@<$t,{YUr4K,QJGHSvS~U]H`<+L*x?eGzSk>XH\W:AK\j?@?c1o List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion list for EXMH users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 22:00:37 -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,REFERENCES,X_LOOP version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: I need to experiment with ripping out all my "sophisticated" cut/paste code. This is mostly historical accident from dealing with very early versions of Tk, and the emacs "cutbuffer", and other wierd junk. You can, too, by hacking upon seditBind.tcl appropriately. >>>Hal DeVore said: > > > >>>>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, "Tony" == Tony Nugent wrote: > > Tony> I can't even mark text in an exmh message window and then > Tony> paste it into a terminal window, the cut buffer seems to > Tony> be completely empty (and its previous contents are no > Tony> longer there either). > > Brent confessed recently that he had tried to subvert the X > model(s) of copy and paste. Not in those words... but that > was how I read it. ;) > > I have a lot of trouble copying and pasting from or to exmh > across a VNC link (from things in the vncviewer to things not in > it and vice versa). As long as I stick to apps being "normally" > displayed on my X server I don't have much of a problem. > > My recollection from my X programming days is that the X model, > like everything in X, is more complex than the human brain can > handle. It also is very different from the MS-Windows model. > And I get the feeling that Tk tries to "unify" those two models > and fails. Not sure what the exmh-specific contribution to the > confusion is, frankly. > > --Hal > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Exmh-users mailing list > Exmh-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/exmh-users -- Brent Welch Software Architect, Panasas Inc Pioneering the World's Most Scalable and Agile Storage Network www.panasas.com welch@panasas.com _______________________________________________ Exmh-users mailing list Exmh-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/exmh-users