Hej Sven (and list!) I am not a super-experienced Lyx user (and will have some questions soon i m afraid) but I just finished copy-pasting my whole dissertation from word to lyx yesterday paragraph by paragraph with short cuts (ctrl c v) without programming anything (out of my capability range) i use windows 8 and lyx 2.1.2. maybe that is a factor - or did I get you wrong? However for me it worked perfectly..? Best, Margret
2015-03-03 15:37 GMT+01:00 Sven Schreiber <[email protected]>: > Hi lyx list people, > > I have been a Lyx user for many years (remember the time when it was not > available on Windows natively...) and still think it's a great program. > > However, currently I'm mainly using it on Windows (both 7 and 8), and the > problem that often 'Paste' is not working is driving me crazy. I have read > a lot of archived discussions about this on the lists and also on other > forums, but ultimately the solutions like redefining keyboard shortcuts do > not work reliably. Given that I do not seem to be alone with this basic > problem, actually I'm surprised that there are not more complaints. I guess > that many potential users simply give up on Lyx as soon as they run into > such fundamental problems, which would be a pity. > > A work-around that usually works is right-clicking at the cursor (or > caret) position and choosing the topmost item "paste (previous selection)". > But this is slowing down the editing work considerably and is just what is > driving me crazy. BTW, sometimes pasting is working again out of the blue, > so it doesn't just seem to some utterly stupid configuration mistake. > > So from my point of view lyx is trying to offer a sophisticated internal > clipboard with more than just the last copied item, and the keyboard > shortcut dialog (in settings) is showing me a whopping 6 partly different > entries when I search for "paste", but the simple copy&paste from the time > of the first 1984 Macintosh is not working -- (sorry for the rant, but > couldn't resist). > > And now the devels will ask me, what are your keyboard shortcut > definitions? (And I could answer, "cua".) But before you ask me that, > please ask yourselves, do you really think a tailormade solution to my > specific case is what is needed? Or should the simple copy&paste function > not rather be made robust and working out-of-the-box for everybody? > > Ok I'm curious whether this is a known problem that is simply to difficult > to solve or what the matter really is. > > Thanks for your work on Lyx! > > cheers, > sven > > > -- __________________________ Margret Mueller PhD Student Political Communication FU Berlin 0049 176 842 787 22
