From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: 16382-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16382: Cut/Copy tool-bar icons issue
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 17:19:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DAA98A.3030909@alice.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52DA9A16.3080409@swipnet.se>
Il 18/01/2014 16.13, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
> Hello.
>
> I think the rationale was that with cut the selection is gone, so
> PRIMARY should be empty, i.e. PRIMARY reflects what is selected on screen.
> However, this is not in line with the freedesktop guidelines
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt:
>
> " - a selection becoming unselected should never unset PRIMARY"
>
> So I checked in a fix in trunk so PRIMARY is not reset.
This seems reasonable to me.. :)
Thanks,
Angelo.
>
> Jan D.
>
> 2014-01-14 18:59, Jan Djärv skrev:
>> Hello.
>>
>> 14 jan 2014 kl. 18:54 skrev Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
>>
>>> Il 14/01/2014 18.47, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> 14 jan 2014 kl. 18:25 skrev Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
>>>>
>>>>> Il 14/01/2014 17.07, Jan Djärv ha scritto:
>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 14 jan 2014 kl. 10:03 skrev Angelo Graziosi
>>>>>> <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Should we open a new bug report for this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This report is fine. The omission to copy to PRIMARY looks
>>>>>> intended, because when text is read-only and cut acts like copy,
>>>>>> text is copied to PRIMARY.
>>>>>
>>>>> "intended" ? If it is intended, which is its usefulness?
>>>>>
>>>>> If one wants to move text from a place to another, this doesn't
>>>>> work using the mouse and the "cut" icon on the tool-bar...
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. select the text with mouse-1 (dragging over the text)
>>>>
>>>> This should already put the text in PRIMARY.
>>>>
>>>>> 2. click the "cut" icon on the tool-bar: the text is removed
>>>>> 3. now move the mouse pointer where you want the text to reappear
>>>>> 4. click mouse-2 to paste: nothing happens
>>>>>
>>>>> So, newly, which the usefulness of the above "intended" omission?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I wonder if there is some thought behind this we don't see.
>>>>>
>>>>> ah..
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does it work if you use C-w instead of cut?
>>>
>>> C-w and C-y work as expected. C-y works also if used at step 4 above.
>>> It is with the mouse and tool-bar "cut" icon that it doesn't work..
>>
>> Ok, so if nobody remember why the current implementation is the way it
>> is in a couple of days or so, I'll fix this. C-w and cut should be
>> equivalent in this case.
>>
>> Jan D.
>>
>>
>>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-18 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-07 14:07 bug#16382: Cut/Copy tool-bar icons issue Angelo Graziosi
2014-01-07 17:27 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-09 2:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 11:26 ` Angelo Graziosi
2014-01-12 18:03 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-14 9:03 ` Angelo Graziosi
2014-01-14 16:07 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-14 17:25 ` Angelo Graziosi
2014-01-14 17:47 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-14 17:54 ` Angelo Graziosi
2014-01-14 17:59 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-18 15:13 ` Jan Djärv
2014-01-18 16:19 ` Angelo Graziosi [this message]
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