Re: [ jEdit-users ] 4.0pre7 Copy/Paste/selection strangeness

[Slava P. <sl...@je...>]

Hi,

You probably switched on multiple selection mode. Does the status bar
say 'multi'? Try pressing C+\ to switch it off.

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 10:59, Wendy S wrote:
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> 4.0pre7 under Windows.
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> I highlight some text and type CTRL-C.  I then press down-arrow because I want to paste a copy of the text on the line below.  (Duplicate a line)
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> When I press CTRL-V, my highlighted text is REPLACED by my copied text.  I don't know how to say this, but the selected text does not get unselected when you click elsewhere or move the cursor after copying.
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> This means that if you CTRL-C some text, and then move somewhere else to paste (CTRL-V) it, the FIRST time you paste it, nothing appears to have happened.  (What it has done is replace the selected text with the copied text-- resulting in no change to the document.)  Then you can CTRL-V again, and it will paste in the text.
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> The real problem occurs when you highlight and copy some text, but decide not to paste it.  The next thing you type replaces the text that is stil selected.  So if you highlight and CTRL-C, then move to a different part of the document, your next keystroke will snap you back to where you had selected the text, and that text will be gone, replaced with the letter you just typed.
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> Once you've selected text, there seems to be no way to clear the selection except to switch to a different buffer and return.  Moving the cursor with the arrow keys or left-single-clicking elsewhere in the buffer should release the selection.
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> Have I accidentally turned on some weird setting??  My CTRL-Z undo key is getting a workout!
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> Wendy in Tempe, AZ
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