[Geany-Users] Problem with mouse copy/paste

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2014-05-08 8:42 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:

> On 8 May 2014 16:30, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm not sure it is a geany bug but this is the only GTK application I
> >> > use
> >> > and I'm on kubuntu 14.04.
> >> >
> >> > The problem seems the same described here:
> >> >
> >> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1032119
> >> >
> >> > - Copy-paste with mouse wheel fails
> >> > + Left-click clears PRIMARY buffer selection (Copy-paste with middle-
> >> > + button/mouse wheel fails)
> >> >
> >> > To reproduce, try the following steps in gedit, geany or jedit (same
> in
> >> > old
> >> > bug-report):
> >> >
> >> > 1) Select some text, thus copying it to the primary
> >> > copy-paste-buffer-thingy.
> >> > 2) *Left* click somewhere on the document, thus clearing the
> selection.
> >> > 3) Click mouse wheel (middle click).
> >> >
> >>
> >> Many people brought up on cut/copy to clipboard and paste do not seem
> >> to grasp that the selection is a *selection*, it is not copied to a
> >> clipboard.
> >>
> >> The applications that the bug reporters call "working" are doing the
> >> wrong thing and copying the selection to the CLIPBOARD or internally
> >> preserving it even after it is unselected.
> >>
> >> When the middle paste is used it pastes the PRIMARY selection, or if
> >> there is no selection pastes clipboard.  So the applications doing the
> >> wrong thing will paste (either from their own internal copy or from
> >> clipboard), but those doing the right thing won't.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Lex
> >
>


Funny, it's about 20 years now that I'm using that method to quickly
copy-paste under linux using the mouse, just to discover today that it's
the wrong one :) Never too late to learn something!

BTW it's a pity, because I find it much more quick and intuitive than
hitting various keyboard combinations like CTRL+SHIF+C or similar.

Just to be sure, I did some quick tests (I'm on Kubuntu 14.04 64bit):

mouse copy-paste  works fine (as I expected) in terminal applications like
konsole and xterm and works in mozilla FF and thunderbird.
Among IDE's it works fine under kdevelop, netbeans, eclipse kepler.
Ah, it also works in vim (didn't test emacs though).... I'm pretty sure all
curses-based apps work.

Are you really sure that all these applications are doing it the wrong way?

It seems to me that clearing the selection/buffer when the user start
dragging would much better that clearing it on mouse down events.

-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
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