#990 Spurious pastes in random locations

[V5234647]

geany 1.22 (built on Jan 11 2013 with GTK 2.24.14, GLib 2.34.3) using Mageia 3

Infrequently, when selecting and pasting into C source, one or more identical pastes from an earlier edit in the same session is/are inserted at a random loction.

[Anonymous]

You don't happen to be copying and pasting between the regular editor and the Split Window plugin pane are you? I often get weird spurious pastes because I've used Ctrl+C in the not-fully-functional Split Window pane and tried to paste it into the normal editor and it pastes some old thing from clipboard or copy from normal editor and try to paste into Split Window, it pastes into normal editor pane wherever the cursor happened to be.

[V5234647]

No, I seldom use Split Window. It's more likely selecting and pasting
between tabs.

On 28/08/13 10:58 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:

You don't happen to be copying and pasting between the regular editor
and the Split Window plugin pane are you? I often get weird spurious
pastes because I've used Ctrl+C in the not-fully-functional Split
Window pane and tried to paste it into the normal editor and it pastes
some old thing from clipboard or copy from normal editor and try to
paste into Split Window, it pastes into normal editor pane wherever
the cursor happened to be.

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[bugs:#990] http://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/990/ Spurious
pastes in random locations

Status: open
Created: Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:59 PM UTC by V5234647
Last Updated: Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:59 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

geany 1.22 (built on Jan 11 2013 with GTK 2.24.14, GLib 2.34.3) using
Mageia 3

Infrequently, when selecting and pasting into C source, one or more
identical pastes from an earlier edit in the same session is/are
inserted at a random loction.

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[V5234647]

Now using geany 1.23.1 (built on May 24 2013 with GTK 2.24.18, GLib 2.36.2)

I'm also getting random insertions from unrelated copy pastes, in the latest case from Konqueror search words. I haven't recognized a pattern yet and it's getting difficult to fish out stray pastes and guarantee that some will not pass into checked code. A stray word following a semi-colon in C code may not trigger a compile error or warning. Using Undo or diff helps a little but something is really wrong so I suggest bumping up the priority.

[V5234647]

Using Mageia 3 with KDE, running Geany while editing with the Kate editor (KDE's equivalent to Geany) induces the same kind of random pastes in the latter. However, when Geany is cancelled the problem disappears. It does seem as though, somehow, Geany interferes with the KDE clipboard manager (Klipper).

[V5234647]

Oops! More testing reveals that the last post was incorrect. It's definitely not Geany after all. The problem seems to be related to the mouse wheel, perhaps when scrolling too exuberantly thus accidentally pressing the mouse wheel. This bug should now be closed. Sorry.

[gummybears]

It is also happening with Geany 1.27. Selected text in 1 file, for no reason appears at random locations in other files and more worringly these files are saved to disk with the altered content without the user being notified of the changes. Only runing my test specs reveal something is wrong. Sorry. had to switch to atom.

[V5234647]

Before editing, use 'xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 6 3 4 5 2"' to suppress mouse clicks due to accidental mouse wheel presses.

[krizoek]

Please note that support has moved to github: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues