On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:01:55 +0200, Enrico wrote: >On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:38:30 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen ><torq...@gmail.com> 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.
Actually, there is an open bug report at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333514 which covers this issue and I'd suggest for closing/re-assigning this bug as it is not strictly Geany's fault :). Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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