Editor in beta 4.1

[Richard Dale]

Here is the patch for KDevelop beta 4.1..

-- Richard 

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> I agree this is cumbersome to say the least...
> 
> But there may be a solution to this.  Richard Dale posted a nice patch for
> this some time ago (around 12 Oct) addressing this 'feature'.  I include his
> comments below:
> 
> 	/*
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From:	Richard Dale [SMTP:Richard_Dale at tipitina.demon.co.uk]
> 	Sent:	Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:13 PM
> 	To:	kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de
> 	Subject:	Re: Cut, Copy and Paste [was : Re: Some bugs...] -
> FIX
> 
> 	..snip...
> 	So the solution was to change KDevelop - it has some code which
> automatically
> 	copies the current selection to the clipboard when the mouse is
> released in the
> 	editor. So here is a patch to kdevelop-1.0beta3 to make this
> behaviour optional.
> 	I've added a new 'Auto Copy' option to the 'Options->Editor...'
> menu. If 'Auto
> 	Copy Selection' is not enabled, then just selecting something will
> not copy it
> 	to the clipboard. An item will only be copied with an explicit
> 'Edit->Copy' or
> 	Ctrl+C command.
> 
> 	I've also fixed a bug in the code to replace the current selection
> with the
> 	clipboard contents; the code was wrongly appending to the existing
> contents.
> 	...snip...
> 	*/
> 
> I thought that the maintainers would have included this in the beta4.x
> releases - any reason why this never happened?  Maybe someone (Richard are
> you out there somewhere ;-) could make a patch for beta 4.1 as I'm sure a
> few people would appreciate this.
> 
> Regards,
> Eugene
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Daniel Beckham [SMTP:danbeck at mtginfo.com]
> > Sent:	Monday, November 22, 1999 4:04 PM
> > To:	kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de
> > Subject:	Re: Editor in beta 4.1
> > 
> > No, it's been like this in every beta and I believe it's an integral part 
> > of KWrite... of all the wonderful things in the unix world, I find this to
> > 
> > be the most irritating thing imaginable...  Kwrite isn't the only 
> > offender... almost every unix text editor does this..  It doesn't make any
> > 
> > sense..   Kwrite and other editors make you perform several operations to 
> > replace a block of text with another...or if there is a short cut, it's 
> > non-standard:
> > 
> > Stupid Unix Way:
> > 
> > Select old text
> > Remove old text
> > Select new text / Copy'ed when selected
> > Place cursor at new position
> > Paste text into new position
> > 
> > If you forgot and copied the new text first, double the above number of 
> > steps...
> > 
> > If you already have your new stuff in the paste buffer, you can't select 
> > the old text to delete it quickly with the del key, you have to either 
> > delete one letter or word at a time, or if you are lucky, you can delete 
> > one line at a time...  If you happen to be at the new text and think "I 
> > need to copy this to the paste buffer to past later", you are shit out of
> > luck.
> > 
> > Better Win32 Way (The only thing they ever got right!!)
> > 
> > Select new text
> > Copy New Text
> > Select Old Text
> > Paste New Text
> > 
> > I can actually work 1000 times faster in a win32 editor like TextPad
> > simply 
> > because I can cut and paste text much more efficiently.
> > 
> > My 2 cents.
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> > At 08:17 PM 11/20/99 +0100, you wrote:
> > >   Hi,
> > >
> > >Hope this little question won't reduce the signal/noise ratio :
> > >in beta 4.1, it seems a selection in the editor is automatically copied
> > >in the clipboard.
> > >As a result, it's impossible to replace a selection by a previous one:
> > >instead, you paste the current selection in the middle of itself (if you
> > >double-clicked in the middle, that is).
> > >
> > >I don't think it behaved like this in previous betas, and I haven't
> > >managed to find options to correct this ("delete on input" works fine,
> > >but it's not sufficient : double-click should not copy the selection in
> > >the clipboard, ctrl-c is there for that. I've also disabled "multiple
> > >selections"...).
> > >
> > >Well, maybe there's a way to do that which I've overlooked ?
> > >Thanks for any answer,
> > >Renaud
> > >
> > 
> >
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