Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?

From	Javier <javier@invalid.invalid>
Subject	Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard?
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.x
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Date	2020-04-07 15:13 -0500

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In comp.os.linux.x Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>> They are defined by the ICCCM here: 
>>> 
>>> https://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/sec-3.html#s-3
>>> 
> 
>> There is something I still don't understand: why the does the document
>> ask for the CUT_BUFFER 0-7 numbers to be rotated when using them?
>> AFAIK that rotation doesn't happen with the selections.
> 
> From the looks of it, they were trying to use the eight buffers as a 
> form of LIFO stack so that not only could you paste the last thing you 
> cut, but you could also ask to go "back in time" and paste the last 
> eight things you had cut.

It looks like that was the original intention of the X designers, but
I think application designers didn't implement that rotation.  XTerm
uses CUT_BUFFER0, CUT_BUFFER1, but the man page says nothing about
rotating them.

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Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-06 19:19 -0500
  Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2020-04-07 02:10 +0000
    Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-07 07:49 -0500
      Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2020-04-07 15:12 +0000
        Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Javier <javier@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-07 15:13 -0500
  Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? F Russell <fr@random.info> - 2020-04-07 02:48 +0000
    Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-06 21:41 -0700
      Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-04-13 00:49 +0000
        Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-13 09:18 +0100
  Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2020-04-13 19:07 +0100
    Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-04-13 19:51 +0000
      Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk> - 2020-04-14 21:00 +0100
        Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2020-04-14 22:13 +0100
        Re: What is the XA_SECONDARY clipboard? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-04-15 08:16 -0400

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