[Geany-Users] Problem with mouse copy/paste

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 08.05.2014 09:09, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti:
> 2014-05-08 8:42 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com 
> <mailto:elextr at gmail.com>>:
>
>     On 8 May 2014 16:30, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com
>     <mailto:apasotti at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > 2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com
>     <mailto:elextr at gmail.com>>:
>     >>
>     >> On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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.


I wonder why you even clear the selection with an additional left-click? 
Just select and middle paste directly.

Best regards.