rxvt {shift,ctrl}+insert

[Noah Levitt]

Hi Marc,

You mean have shift+insert paste PRIMARY if there's nothing in
CLIPBOARD? I don't think that's a good idea. That would make rxvt's
behavior completely nonstandard, different from every other app out
there, and would increase the likelihood that users paste the wrong
stuff by accident. (Everybody's experienced the frustration of
accidentally pasting a multiline block of text at the bash prompt...)

I don't recommend it, but if there's an adamant contingent of
"shift+insert should paste PRIMARY" users, I think we'd be better off
with making it an option.

Noah

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:48:03 +0100, Marc A. Lehmann <pcg at goof.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:28:27PM -0500, Noah Levitt <nlevitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here is a patch that makes ctrl+insert copy the selection to the
> > clipboard and makes shift+insert paste the contents of the clipboard.
> > This conforms better to current deskstop standards. See
> 
> First of all, in general I agree with you. However, would it be possible to
> have the code look at clipboard first and then fall back to the selection
> (the selection code falls back got the clipboard already).
> 
> A lot of people use the keyboard for pasting, and this would fail for them.
> Those people almost never use the clipboard, so faling back to the selection
> would keep backward compatibility for them.
> 
> Also, that way less code would need to be duplicated, I think.
>