On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:22:00 -0800 (PST)
Chris George <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for all the work. My Python/Qt/OS is the same as your test
> environment. For me the cursor still *always *goes to the end of the
> string on paste, no matter how I select the string.
>
> So it must be something in my settings. I pull from git every single
> time I start Leo, it is baked into my start-up script. I will try
> downloading from github and running a vanilla install of Leo and
> report back.
You can do:
HOME=/tmp python launchLeo.py
to get a vanilla Leo environment, if that helps.
Cheers -Terry
> Chris
>
> On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at 7:45:58 AM UTC-8, john lunzer
> wrote:
> >
> > I just tested a fresh install on a fresh virtual machine (Linux
> > Mint 17.2 KDE, which is a great Leo test environment). Booted into
> > the Live ISO and didn't download or install anything except for Leo
> > from github.
> >
> > Leo 5.1-final, build 20151122092056, Sun Nov 22 09:20:56 CST 2015
> > Not running from a git repo
> > Python 2.7.6, PyQt version 4.8.6
> >
> > *My changes are working*. My understanding of the desired behavior
> > was that when text was highlighted that if a paste was executed
> > that the cursor would stay either at the beginning or end of the
> > pasted string following a paste corresponding to where the where
> > the cursor was in the original selection. In cases where no text is
> > selected/highlighted the cursor always goes to the end of the
> > pasted string. That was my understanding and what I implemented.
> >
> > If you would like a *second* setting in which the cursor always
> > stays at the beginning of the pasted string whether text was
> > previously selected or not I can also implement that but it will
> > not be default behavior.
> >
> > On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 10:16:56 AM UTC-5, john lunzer
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm going to install a linux virtual machine on my windows
> >> computer and test this out with a fresh install.
> >>
> >> On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 7:34:00 PM UTC-5, john lunzer
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Okay, thanks for testing it out. The behavior *does* work for me,
> >>> so I'm not having an issue on my end. I'll try to take a look it
> >>> at as soon as I can. Maybe not this weekend, but I'm off next
> >>> week so should have some time.
> >>>
> >>> Edward or Terry, if you have any ideas on why it might now be
> >>> working on machines other than my own I would appreciate it. I'm
> >>> thinking it might have something to do with how I do my check:
> >>>
> >>> I'm getting the setting in the LeoFrame constructor with:
> >>>
> >>> self.cursorStay = c.config.getBool("cursor_stay_on_paste",
> >>> default = True)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> And my check consists of:
> >>>
> >>> if self.cursorStay and wname.startswith('body')
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm guessing that the constructor is firing properly and setting
> >>> self.cursorStay otherwise I'd probably be getting an attribute
> >>> error. And since the default is True it should be True. So I
> >>> wonder if my understanding what wname gets set to is causing the
> >>> problem.
> >>>
> >>> On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 6:24:34 PM UTC-5, lewis wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I can confirm it makes no difference on a windows machine. The
> >>>> cursor always lands on the right with Global settings and @bool
> >>>> cursor_stay_on_paste = True in myLeoSettings.leo.
> >>>>
> >>>> Leo Log Window
> >>>> Leo 5.1-final, build 20151120111022, Fri Nov 20 11:10:22 CST 2015
> >>>> Git repo info: branch = master, commit = a9465468020e
> >>>> Python 3.4.3, PyQt version 5.5.1
> >>>> Windows 7 AMD64 (build 6.1.7601) SP1
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Lewis
> >>>>
> >>>
>
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