Mac Cut and Paste

[Jonathan Morton]

>I sent this almost two weeks ago and nobody replied... Surely I can't
>be the only person to have encountered this before....

Ummmm, sometimes these things get overlooked in the rush :/


>>Is it just my imagination, or does Cut-N-Paste not work on the Mac
>>VNC client? I have an VNC session open to my X desktop from my Mac
>>workstation at home. I used to have a Windows machine at home and
>>got quite used to selecting text in my X session and being able to
>>paste that text into my e-mail program or whatever. The clipboard
>>seemed "shared" between X and my Windows machine. On the Mac, there
>>doesn't seem to be any way of doing this. Am I missing something
>>completely?

I think there is a facility implemented to do this, but due to some
(allegedly) weird ways in which the Mac clipboard works, it sometimes
doesn't work / is disabled in viewers at least.  The Purple Shark viewer I
normally use doesn't allow it at all - the menu option is greyed out.  I
haven't been able to access a working copy of the AT&T viewer (whether
beta-2 or -3) so I haven't been able to test it either.  In theory it
should be 'trivial' to copy plain-text across platforms - just convert line
endings etc, but like i say there are aparrently "oddities" in the Mac
clipboard which make it less trivial.

Ever heard that phrase "love the interface, shame about the OS"?  It
applies in spades :(.  Hope OS X has a better API...

OK, looks like one of my top priorities now is to get the beta-2 viewer
compiled under CWpro 4.1 (since it refuses to under 5.2, and probably 5.3
once I upgrade)... and try to figure out what the state of play is.

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
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uni-mail: j.d.morton "at" lancaster.ac.uk

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