[Geany] Middle mouse click for quick pasting

[Lex Trotman]

[...]

> Back in ye olden days, as I recall, text had to be selected by the mouse
> using the left button along with mouse movement for the text to be
> copied to the X buffer--selecting text with the keyboard did not copy it
> to the X buffer although the toolkit's provided buffer could be copied
> into with an accelerator key/menu selection.  Then clearing the text by
> deleting it and then clicking elsewhere in the app and finally
> middle-clicking pasted the text.  The buffer would retain that text
> until a new selection was made.  At least that's how I recall it used to
> be done.
>
> <rant>
> The newer desktops and GUI toolkits seem to have mucked with this enough
> that it seems as though I don't know what will remain in the X buffer
> and what will be in a toolkit's copy buffer.  Therefore apps like XFCE's
> Clipman and KDE's clipboard manager are essential, especially with
> Firefox's address bar.  As I see it, this whole paste buffer issue has
> become a bit of a roullette wheel over the past several years and is not
> just limited to Geany.  While I happily left the look of Motif apps
> behind, I don't recall these sorts of text buffer issues with them.  I
> will say this, getting used to the availability of the X buffer over the
> years, I find it a real limitation when it is not available on other
> platforms, i.e. MS Windows.
> </rant>

I think you are right, the unix system has been screwed up by trying
to emulate the windows system on top of it and no-one is sure what
anything is supposed to do, and no-one is sure what the "correct"
behavior is (except its whatever I say :) or whatever todays GTK nerd
thinks who wasn't born when Unix worked right.
</rant2>

Cheers
Lex



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