A couple of weeks ago I started noticing that the Select and middle-button-paste only pastes once. As I use Geany frequently I'm fairly certain this wasn't an issue previously. In other programs, this method still works normally.
Obviously, ctrl-C and Ctrl-V work fine.
Geany is 1.39 Gtk v3.24.29 GLib v2.70.4
Hmmm, for me Geany middle click pastes where the pointer is _and moves the caret to the paste location which removes the select_. On Geany 1.36 this still allows pasting even though there is no selection, and the former selection middle click pastes in other apps even if it isn't the selection any more. But with Geany git no further pastes inside Geany or in other apps happen because there is no selection, which is arguably the correct behaviour if the caret is moved and the selection removed.
Other apps I tried (Xed, Gedit, Libreoffice writer) all worked the same as each other, middle click pastes where the pointer is, but the cursor and selection are not modified, so repeated pastes are possible, left click to move the cursor and the selection is removed and no further middle click pastes are possible.
So older Geanys (and Scite 4.3 which I tested) did not behave the way other apps do either. They moved the cursor and de-selected which no other apps do.
AFAICT Geany does not handle the middle click, it happens in Scintilla. I can't build a current Scite ATM to see if it behaves the same as git Geany, if you can build it and find it does, please report it to Scintilla (referring to Scite which is the reference editor for Scintilla). Probably Scintilla should really behave as other apps do, keeping the caret position and select, rather than reinstating the past erroneous behaviour.
Cheers! - will investigate that, when I find some time. At first try, it seems my glib is too old to compile with - loads of deprecated GTimeVal declarations... I'm sure this will have other ramifications.
John
If it compiles then deprecation _warning_s should not matter, a deprecation should mean "we are gonna remove it soon, but its still here for now".
See the Scintilla issue here: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/2287/ And in detail my comment: https://sourceforge.net/p/scintilla/bugs/2287/#df46/1070 which states that the selection can be pasted only once *within* Geany.
I think it would be more convenient with the old behavior (regardless of being it correct or not) but as Neil said, it would require some more efforts to be implemented.
Closed #3310 as completed via #4168.
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