[Idle-dev] Copy buffer?

Bruce Sherwood bas@andrew.cmu.edu
Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:05:44 -0400


Forgive me if this is a well-known bug in Idle:

Copy something, click to insert somewhere, accidentally hit Copy again, and 
you lose your copy buffer.

In all other editors known to me, a Copy operation from an empty selection 
is treated as a null operation. I've gotten caught by this a number of 
times.

(I sent this note just to Kurt Kaiser, thinking I would annoy only one 
person instead of the whole list, then saw his note about a well-deserved 
vacation!)

Bruce Sherwood