GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 575251
gedit jumps to cursor on midleclick paste
Last modified: 2010-03-08 22:57:12 UTC
Please describe the problem: when selecting e.g. a paragraph and then pasting it somewhere (e.g. scroll up a page) the focus shifts back to the cursor position Steps to reproduce: 1. mark a word 2. scroll up a page 3. paste it using 3rd mouse button Actual results: the word gets selected, you scroll up, the word gets pasted - but you don't see it since focus goes back to the previous position Expected results: I expect the focus to stay where you just pasted something Does this happen every time? yes Other information: if some think going back to the previous cursor position is the right behaviour there should be an option to select either way.
This is one of the things that I find most annoying in gedit as well.
This bug still exists in gedit 2.28.0.
Still present in 2.29.7. What's even more irritating is that one then starts typing, typically expecting to press DEL to delete the word after what was just pasted. But the delete deletes the wrong thing. *Please* can we get this fixed before Ubuntu Lucid is released?
Just out of interest, anyone here using a distribution other than Ubuntu? (I am using Ubuntu, as is Richard Neill I presume).
Re #4, I can confirm it also happens in 2.28 on the latest version of Mandriva. So it really is an upstream bug, and imho, confirmed and severity major.
Please raise bug status from UNCONFIRMED to NEW. Otherwise it might stay below radar for another year. About severity: this bug has the potential to ruin documents! Thanks to svn and pylint I think I found all stray pastes so far. *knockingonwood
This has been fixed in gtk+. Thanks for reporting it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 612119 ***