i need to experiment with ripping out all my sophisticated cut paste code this is mostly historical accident from dealing with very early versions of tk and the emacs cutbuffer and other wierd junk you can too by hacking upon seditbind tcl appropriately hal devore said on fri NUMBER sep NUMBER tony tony nugent wrote tony i can t even mark text in an exmh message window and then tony paste it into a terminal window the cut buffer seems to tony be completely empty and its previous contents are no tony longer there either brent confessed recently that he had tried to subvert the x model s of copy and paste not in those words but that was how i read it i have a lot of trouble copying and pasting from or to exmh across a vnc link from things in the vncviewer to things not in it and vice versa as long as i stick to apps being normally displayed on my x server i don t have much of a problem my recollection from my x programming days is that the x model like everything in x is more complex than the human brain can handle it also is very different from the ms windows model and i get the feeling that tk tries to unify those two models and fails not sure what the exmh specific contribution to the confusion is frankly hal _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL brent welch software architect panasas inc pioneering the world s most scalable and agile storage network URL welch URL _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL 