On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Sven Schreiber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi lyx list people,
Hello! I hope you stick around the list more often. Your feedback would be useful. > 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. That would indeed be a pity. I consider this a very annoying bug for those who come across, which I agree is a substantial amount of people. > 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. This is good information to know. Can you put this on the bug report (which I paste below) ? Even though it is not ideal, workarounds give us information for tracking down the problem. Also, it would be great if you CC'ed yourself so that you will be notified if we need you to test something since you are someone who can reproduce the bug. > 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? The goal indeed is for copy/paste to work out-of-the-box for everyone. > Ok I'm curious whether this is a known problem that is simply to difficult > to solve or what the matter really is. Yes, it is known and difficult to solve. See the discussion here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8695 > Thanks for your work on Lyx! Thanks for your feedback! Keep it coming. Best regards, Scott
