On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:38:30 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, > Damián Viano wrote: > > Hi Torquil, thanks for your bug report, it works fine for me > > selecting and pasting with middle mouse button within the same > > document in geany. Could you maybe try to reproduce this in a > > different machine? Or maybe in a X session without a window manager > > (i.e. a failsafe session)? > > > > Thanks and hope we can squash this one soon :) > > > > Damián Viano > > > > Hi, I found out how to do it. It is just that it works differently > that in other applications. The text to copy still has to be > highlighted when I middle-click. I have always left-clicked once at > the point where I want to insert the text before middle-clicking > (which is maybe unneccesary...), and that didn't work in geany. When > I copy text out of geany I can still do this, because then geany > looses its focus and the text is still highlighted in geany after the > left click in the other program. I had a look at this and I think if this is really a bug, it's a bug in Scintilla not directly in Geany (Scintilla is the embedded editing component in Geany). I tested this also with SciTE (also based on Scintilla) and with mousepad (based on GTK's TextView) from Xfce. And they both behave like you describe: pasting doesn't work once the selection is gone. I don't know the X selection specification (primary clipboard) but maybe this is the intended behaviour. But regardless of whether this is a bug or actually intended behaviour, you can easily workaround this by using a clipboard manager like Xfce's clipman which saves the current selection and so you can paste it everywhere even if the previous selection doesn't exist anymore. I really suggest to use it as it makes your life much easier and you most probably will start to love it after ten minutes of using it :). Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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