This is from scintilla-temp where I unwittingly posted asking about a
problem I'm having with SciTE:
> >On linux, I select some text and click a different tab to middleclick
> >the selection buffer there, but the left-click apparently clears the
> >selection buffer. Even within the same tab, if I left-click where I
> >want to middleclick the selection buffer, it's gone. Is there a
> >preference that deals with this? Is this a bug?
Neil Hodgson replied:
>Whether dropping the primary selection when left-clicking within an
>edit widget is a bug is debatable but Scintilla is behaving the same
>as gedit and the standard GTK+ edit widget.
> SciTE tabs are different from other applications in that only the
>visible tab is really present and all the other tabs are dormant.
It's ironic mentioning gedit, since that's exactly one of the reasons
I've been looking for another text editor. When I was on Windows I used
Notepad++ which is based on scintilla and it was really great, so I was
excited when I found SciTE (and still am), but this is functionality I
just don't understand the reason for. How is one to use this great
selection buffer feature when trying to paste to a new line if one
cannot first left click so as to hit return? I can say that the
selection buffer works between multiple tabs if I use the keyboard to
switch between them, so it's not a matter of a tab being dormant.
I also don't like that the selection buffer is pasted to where the
middleclick occurs rather than where the caret is, but I consider that a
secondary issue. Does anyone know of any patches to these ends? If
not, I'll see if I can write one myself. Maybe in all of this, I'm just
too used to my terminal's setup. I use my terminal constantly for file
management, system control, etc, so it's become ingrained.
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