From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-03-23T15:24:27+09:00
Subject: Re: copy/paste in FXText

Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net> wrote:
> Martin DeMello wrote:
> 
> > I've been playing around with FXIrb, and I've run into a weird
> > problem. When I select a block of text and copy, then paste without
> > clearing the highlight, it moves rather than copies the selected text.
> 
> I don't think I've ever used a text editor or word processor that didn't 
> behave this way (blowing away the selected text when you do a paste).

I experimented with Word and gvim - I think my mistake is in persisting
the selection when the cursor moves off it. I'll prolly need to
auto-copy and kill the selection.

martin