Hello John,
My bad I guess. What I labeled 'usual' style is the default linux behavior when selecting text.
If you are using linux you know what I mean if not, heer some background.
If you select text, it's automatically added to the clipboard. (This and a clipboard manager is what eases work on linux a lot).
You can then paste the selected text using the third-(middle-) Button or ctrl-v.
While in any other context this auto adding to clipboard behavior of linux is a great thing, while editing code however it's not.
You want to select parts and paste them some where else. I have a habit of selecting/pasting identifiers for variables.
Especially if it is a longer on. I do this to avoid typos while reusing code. I copy the lines of code, change what's needed, then
select the identifier I need to use and then I select the identifier I want to replace.
Some IDE's and Editors I've come across disable this "auto add to clipboard" behavior to allow just that.
Geany is one of them, but this stopped working after adding the mentioned theme.
I hope this explains it.
Phil
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:54 PM, John Yeung
<gallium.arsenide@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Philipp Kalder <
pkalder@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The copy/paste is more of an inconvenience
> than the issue with parenthesis.
copy/paste and "usual" copy/paste. When you say you mark text, do you
mean put a marker on it, or just select it? Or do you mean select it,
and then copy it to the clipboard with Ctrl+C? What is editor-style
behavior supposed to be and what is usual behavior supposed to be?
Fair warning: I don't think I can help you, regardless of what your
problem is. I am just completely missing *what* the problem is
(regarding copy/paste) and just want to understand.
John