When will we have a clipboard that works?

[Derek Broughton]

Erik Christiansen wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:17:06AM +0700, Chanchao wrote:
>> I would also like to ditch the old 'X' type auto-copy of stuff when
>> selecting things.   This is just evil, like try to paste a URL or Google
>> search term into Firefox.. to delete whatever was in there, most people
>> would select it and then paste.. but in selecting it, it replaces the
>> clipboard contents.
>> 
>> That's just nuts.
> 
> It is indescribably and unbelievably perverse, and the greatest bane of
> the *nix world. (And doubtless the cause of much muttered  profanity.)
> 
> Do we log the bug report with the mozilla guys?

No, because it works as designed.  
-- 
derek