This was an eye opener as I had never guessed to try this in the GUI! It
works in Geany 1.29 (with Debian 9 + Mate desktop 1.16.2)
Left mouse double click on text.
Token gets selected.
Move the cursor to search box in the menu bar.
Now middle click the mouse.
The text is appended to whatever is there.
Perhaps it would be more useful if the text was overwritten?
Geoff
On 17/04/2020 17:57, Mike Miller wrote:
On 2020-04-17 02:03, Gösta Ljungdahl wrote:
"Select with double left click first, then middle click where you want
to paste, thats how X11 copy has always worked."
Yes, it works!! It's my moving the cursor to the paste point that
destroys the copy. Just hovering with the mouse at the desired point
and then middle click is all that it takes. I have been living under
the misconception that paste is always done where the cursor is and
this is true for a terminal session but not for X11 and Geany in
particular as I just learned. Thanks guys for educating me! 😊
Yep, traditionally when you middle-click in X (by default) it pastes
whatever is currently selected. The selection itself is the "storage"
of the buffer. That's how I think of it anyway. If you move the cursor,
the selection is lost and therefore later another paste yields nothing.
There are some "modern" apps that do more, for example browsers copy the
clipboard contents into the middle-click buffer as well. I believe
their rationale is that it is user-friendly. But, having a select few
apps behave differently is confusing as well.
-Mike
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