https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94976
Bug ID: 94976
Summary: Select-buffer contents not persistent for copy/paste
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 4.1.6.2 release
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
All,
For the longest time, I didn't think libre-writer was capable of using the
select buffer to highlight->middle-mouse paste on Linux. The problem is the
contents of the select-buffer are not persistent. Meaning, if you highlight
text and then move down in the document where the text is needed and left-click
to position the cursor for the paste the select-buffer is empty.
The only way select-buffer paste works is if you highlight the text, then
move down (*without* being able to affirmatively position with a left-click)
and middle-mouse click while the text above is still highlighted. That's nuts.
With every other linux app, from konsole to kwrite to gedit, etc.. when you
highlight information, that information is stored in the select-buffer and it
remains there until overwritten with new information. That information is not
lost simply because the original text is no longer highlighted.
That allows the needed control of being able to affirmatively place the
cursor in the position where the text will be pasted and then middle-mouse
paste. This is critical when dealing with subscript/superscript or typeface
changes, etc...
Please determine why the select-buffer is not persistent in libre office and
why it is wiped out if the original text is no longer highlighted and make it
so once information is placed in the select-buffer by highlighting something,
that text stays there until it is overwritten by something else, not emptied
when click the left mouse button somethere else.
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