Re: New features in gitk

> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:13:43PM +0000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>>>   * the 'sha1' input field is a major pain in the UI: the cut&paste
>>>     interaction is very poor. I don't know why, but it's often  
>>> very very
>>>     hard to really copy the sha id, probably because it's  
>>> selected by
>>>     default.
>>
>> It's selected so that the contents are in the cut buffer and you can
>> paste them in an xterm with middle-button.  Possibly I need to check
>> that control-C (or command-C under macos) is properly bound to copy.
>
>   Well, doing ^C doesn't always copy it (probably a glitch wrt which
> input has the focus), and it certainly doesn't synchronize with the  
> cut
> buffer for me. And it doesn't work for anyone at work either. I use  
> ion
> with the KDE clipboard manager (klipper -- because I never managed to
> find a clipboard manager that is as good yet, not depending upon KDE),
> and at work most people use KDE, with the same klipper. Maybe it's  
> a bad
> interaction, I should try to use it under gnome or so to see if it is.
>