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In message <527f57ed32charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk>
          charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article
> <gemini.m2df5v00d9p9c013w.spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk>,
>    Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> wrote:
>> Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> wrote:

>>> I've been tearing my hair out trying to resolve this issue without
>>> success but to think that just disabling UniClip's clipboard cures it.
>>> Has anyone got back to RComp to try and ascertain why this is happening
>>> and is there a longer term solution?

>> The problem is not with UniClip, and disabling UniClip will only solve it
>> in respect of clips passed around within EW and not clips passed between
>> applications (which is after all the whole point of the global
>> clipboard). The problem is caused by EasiWriter, which when it holds the
>> clipboard and is asked for the current clip by another application, adds
>> a linefeed to it. Presumably with purely local clipping EW just ignores
>> its own linefeed, but UniClip can only work by taking control of the
>> clipboard and if EW tells it that the clip contains a linefeed then
>> that's what it will copy.

> In OvPro having the global clipboard in use, means that 'cut and paste'
> only copies text, not styles, etc.

Yes, that is the more serious drawback of UniClip. The same happens 
with EasiWriter. If you switch off UniClip, everything returns to 
normal.

-- 
Martin
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Martin Wuerthner         MW Software      http://www.mw-software.com/
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Viewing clipboard Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2012-04-11 20:11 +0100
  Re: Viewing clipboard Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-11 23:43 +0100
    Re: Viewing clipboard Chris Evans <chris@cjemicros.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 12:34 +0100
  Re: Viewing clipboard Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 09:28 +0100
  Re: Viewing clipboard Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-04-12 10:14 +0100
    Re: Viewing clipboard "Bruce Goatly" <ss4@goatly.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 11:23 +0100
      Re: Viewing clipboard Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2012-04-12 14:25 +0100
        Re: Viewing clipboard "Bruce Goatly" <ss4@goatly.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 15:05 +0100
        Re: Viewing clipboard Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 15:34 +0100
          Re: Viewing clipboard Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2012-04-12 16:15 +0100
            Re: Viewing clipboard Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 16:43 +0100
          Re: Viewing clipboard charles <charles@charleshope.demon.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 17:44 +0100
            Re: Viewing clipboard Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-12 20:04 +0200
          Re: Viewing clipboard Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-04-12 20:28 +0200
            Re: Viewing clipboard Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 20:23 +0100
              Re: Viewing clipboard Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-12 22:07 +0100
                Re: Viewing clipboard Alan Wrigley <spamhater@keepyourfilthyspamtoyourself.co.uk> - 2012-04-12 22:46 +0100
                Re: Viewing clipboard Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2012-04-12 23:33 +0100

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