Small clipboard bug triggered by gvim

[Michael Schaap]

On 29-Mar-2005 13:06, Alexander Gottwald wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Michael Schaap wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I recently started using Cygwin/X a bit more, and it works amazingly well!
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>>I did, however, stumble upon a small bug using the built-in "-clipboard" 
>>handling: when using a GTK2 gvim, consecutive selections are not copied 
>>to the Windows clipboard.
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>This is most likely because gvim always holds the selection. 
>There is no clipboard in X11, just an information which application
>holds the selection. If an application wants to insert the selection 
>it sends an event to the selection owner and the owner sends back
>the selected data. This may change between calls. 
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>The clipboard manager does not receive information that the clipboard 
>changed, so it will insert the old string regardless of changes in the
>client.
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Yeah, that'd do it... :-(
(This also explains why the standalone xwinclip doesn't have this 
problem: it keeps stealing the selection.)

Thanks,

– Michael