2014-05-08 9:46 GMT+02:00 Thomas Martitz <[email protected]>: > Am 08.05.2014 09:09, schrieb Alessandro Pasotti: > >> 2014-05-08 8:42 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <[email protected] <mailto: >> [email protected]>>: >> >> >> On 8 May 2014 16:30, Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > 2014-05-08 2:23 GMT+02:00 Lex Trotman <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>>: >> >> >> >> >> On 7 May 2014 22:36, Alessandro Pasotti <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > I'm not sure it is a geany bug but this is the only GTK >> application I >> >> > use >> >> > and I'm on kubuntu 14.04. >> >> > >> >> > The problem seems the same described here: >> >> > >> >> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1032119 >> >> > >> >> > - Copy-paste with mouse wheel fails >> >> > + Left-click clears PRIMARY buffer selection (Copy-paste with >> middle- >> >> > + button/mouse wheel fails) >> >> > >> >> > To reproduce, try the following steps in gedit, geany or >> jedit (same in >> >> > old >> >> > bug-report): >> >> > >> >> > 1) Select some text, thus copying it to the primary >> >> > copy-paste-buffer-thingy. >> >> > 2) *Left* click somewhere on the document, thus clearing the >> selection. >> >> > 3) Click mouse wheel (middle click). >> >> > >> >> >> >> Many people brought up on cut/copy to clipboard and paste do >> not seem >> >> to grasp that the selection is a *selection*, it is not copied to a >> >> clipboard. >> >> >> >> The applications that the bug reporters call "working" are >> doing the >> >> wrong thing and copying the selection to the CLIPBOARD or >> internally >> >> preserving it even after it is unselected. >> >> >> >> When the middle paste is used it pastes the PRIMARY selection, >> or if >> >> there is no selection pastes clipboard. So the applications >> doing the >> >> wrong thing will paste (either from their own internal copy or from >> >> clipboard), but those doing the right thing won't. >> >> >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> Lex >> > >> >> >> >> Funny, it's about 20 years now that I'm using that method to quickly >> copy-paste under linux using the mouse, just to discover today that it's >> the wrong one :) Never too late to learn something! >> >> BTW it's a pity, because I find it much more quick and intuitive than >> hitting various keyboard combinations like CTRL+SHIF+C or similar. >> >> Just to be sure, I did some quick tests (I'm on Kubuntu 14.04 64bit): >> >> mouse copy-paste works fine (as I expected) in terminal applications >> like konsole and xterm and works in mozilla FF and thunderbird. >> Among IDE's it works fine under kdevelop, netbeans, eclipse kepler. >> Ah, it also works in vim (didn't test emacs though).... I'm pretty sure >> all curses-based apps work. >> >> Are you really sure that all these applications are doing it the wrong >> way? >> >> It seems to me that clearing the selection/buffer when the user start >> dragging would much better that clearing it on mouse down events. >> > > > I wonder why you even clear the selection with an additional left-click? > Just select and middle paste directly. > > I usually don't, but sometimes I do, for example it can happen that I want copy-paste a piece of code but before pasting I notice that I need to type a few charachters, in that case I click in the position, type what I need to type, then paste.
I know this is not a show stopper, but I wonder (left aside discussions about what is wrong and what is not) what tare the advantages/needs to clear the selection on left click. -- Alessandro Pasotti w3: www.itopen.it
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