Re: [tlug] copy/paste got easier and harder

[Botond Botyanszki <9915104t@example.com>]

> 2) On RH8.0, I noticed that the data one
> is copying from point a to point b
> gets lost if one terminates the program
> of point a (e.g., kills the editor
> from whence the data is being copied).
> This has happened with gedit, yudit,
> mozilla, on gnome. It doesn't happen
> when point a is something ungui like
> vi, I noticed.

This is a feature of the so called "selections". The application has the
data that you select and it's not stored in a buffer. When the app
exits, your selection is gone.
See this: http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/clipboards.txt