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Bug 126758 - unable to copy paste unless mouse pointer is *within* selected text
unable to copy paste unless mouse pointer is *within* selected text
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
gedit QA volunteers
: 129729 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-11-11 21:35 UTC by Elton Woo
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 2.6.next
GNOME version: ---


Description Elton Woo 2003-11-11 21:35:31 UTC 
versions:
gedit-2.4.0-3
gnome-utils-2.4.0-1
When selecting text with the RMB in Gedit, if the pointer is NOT within
the higlighted text, copy / paste operations fail. 
Kindly refer to this Red Hat Bugzilla report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107312
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2004-01-02 20:07:21 UTC 
I'm seeing this with 2.5 as well. I'm tentatively marking it a 2.6 
showstopper since copying/pasting text is a major feature of a text 
editor. :)
Comment 2 Paolo Maggi 2004-01-02 23:18:49 UTC 
Note that we have this bug (even if I'm not really sure this is a so
import bug) since 2.2
I really don't think this is a showstopper.
Note that most Windows apps have the same behaviour.
Comment 3 Luis Villa 2004-01-09 00:18:32 UTC 
*** Bug 129729 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Luis Villa 2004-01-09 00:24:54 UTC 
Paolo- it's your call, you're the maintainer, but in my opinion it's
really pretty gross- you basically can't use X middle-button
copy/paste into any other apps, you have to use windows-style
ctl+c/ctl+v, which sort of sucks :/
Comment 5 Paolo Maggi 2004-01-09 10:06:49 UTC 
luis: why do you say "you basically can't use X middle-button
copy/paste into any other apps"?
It does seem to me that the bug is describing another problem. Am I
wrong? 
AFACT, you can copy/paste using the middle button without problem. If
you are not able to do it, please check it in gtk-demo too and lemme know.
Thanks,
Paolo
Comment 6 Paolo Maggi 2004-01-09 10:10:53 UTC 
This bug is somewhat related to bug #104950.
Comment 7 Luis Villa 2004-02-14 01:44:41 UTC 
Sorry I didn't get back to you on this. It appears fixed now; not
surprisingly you were right and I was wrong :)