[Jalview-discuss] Copy raw sequence!

[Jonas Larsson]

>>> On 29-01-2008 at 15:19, James Procter <jimp at compbio.dundee.ac.uk> wrote:

>> For my part the best thing would be to use ctrl-c for raw copy and ctrl-shift-c 
>> for fasta copy. This is of course not a good idea as a default for jalview 
>> since that would not be backwards compatible but one could always wish for 
>> two additions: raw copy on ctrl-shift-c as default and a checkbox in 
>> preferences to swap the two copy variants...
>> 
>> As of now I am actually using MEGA in parallel with jalview just for this 
>> reason, quite inefficient but stripping out fasta headers all time was even 
>> worse :(
> 
> I'd vote for having a preference (or something) for what jalview uses to 
> copy the data to the clipboard. The application doesn't even touch the 
> clipboard when copies occur internally so internal compatibility for the 
> CTRL-C behaviour isn't really an issue.

Ah, no I meant more that people are used to gettnig the Fasta sequence and not the raw so changing default behaviour would maybe not be a good idea.

/ Jonas


 
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