Hi pieter
Hi,
Thanks very much - "--textenc UTF-8" works for us!
For the sake of others with the same issue reading this in the archives, I
just want to be pedantic and point out that I doubt "--textenc UTF-8" is
some magic panacea that will work for all systems.
Obviously.
Pieter do you really think that we are satisfied with the situation?
No certainly not. Now do you imagine the huge todo we have?
If your team is using Pharo then it may be good to think that this is
also your system
and you can help you and us.
The issue seems to be that the encoding Pharo uses should match that of
the surrounding system, which, for us, happens to be UTF-8 but could be
different for others.
Indeed.
I was a bit sloppy when I spoke of "middle button paste". I don't mean
that the Pharo's paste command should be bound to the middle mouse button.
I meant that Pharo should be able to paste the type of X11 selection
(primary selection) that some other apps like terminals traditionally
paste when you press the middle button.
We started to add SDL and we should do a large pass on the events in the
future.
But time is scarced
And that is still not implemented: I need to explicitly press "Copy" in
Chrome before it is pasted to Pharo, just highlighting the text does not
work.
Hi,
try setting the encoding of pharo to unicode when launching from command
line and see if that fixes your problem:
--textenc UTF-8
The default encoding is not unicode which messes pasting from some
applications (e.g. Google Chrome 35+).
As far as middle mouse button pasting goes I do not believe Pharo supports
it - at least I haven't found any code related to it (although I would
love
to have this functionality).
Peter
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Pieter Nagel <[email protected]> wrote:
Our team is very frustrated with figuring out how copy & paste is
supposed
to work in Pharo 3 under X11.
Maybe there's something we misunderstand, or can configure?
We can't copy and paste text directly from other X11 apps into Pharo. We
need to first paste the text into text editors like GEdit or XEmacs, and
then we can copy and paste the text from there into Pharo.
I think this has something to do with X11's complicated model of primary
vs. clipboard selection. The primary selection is typically created by
just highlighting some text, and then (by common convention) can be
pasted
from by just pressing the middle mouse button. The clipboard selection
is
typically created by explicitly using Copy or Cut commands.
Strange thing is, if we start with text in (for example) Google Chrome,
then neither type of selection can be pasted into Pharo. If we start
with
text in (for example) GEdit, then both types of selection can be pasted
into Pharo.
We're using Unity under Ubuntu 12.04, if that makes a difference.
Advice?
Thanks.
