[Idle-dev] Copy buffer?

[Guido van Rossum]

> 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

I think it's a Tk text widget ideosyncracy.

I don't care much for the default bindings of the text widget; fixing
this is somewhere on the TO DO list.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)