Re: Gnumeric and RHEL3



On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:55, Martin Donald wrote:

It looks like the Gnome stuff is going closed shop now. Gnumeric
always used to accept from the X clipboard (if the local clipboard was
empty). Now it seems that only the gnome clipboard that is in favor.

No. Gnumeric uses the X CLIPBOARD not the X PRIMARY selection. (X has 2
different clipboards, one which should holds the current selection
(PRIMARY) and one that holds explicitly copied text (CLIPBOARD). Emacs
uses only PRIMARY. GNUMERIC is trying to do the right thing (according
to X) by using CLIPBOARD. As a consequence we emacs users are getting
.....


The manual still says in section 5.7.4

  Pasting X clipboard in Gnumeric will automatically launch the Text
  Import druid which will assist you in imporitng the plain text
  contents of X clipboard into the spreadsheet. The Text Import druid is
  described in The Text Import Druid.

Which is correct, just now the X clipboard is corectly X CLIPBOAD.


Andreas
-- 
Andreas J. Guelzow
Taliesin Software, Shelties, Pyr Sheps
and Shetland Sheep

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