[findwindow] Cannot paste with 3rd mouse button if a previous search already performed.

[jmb0007]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Hi

In Synaptic, you can use the "cut and paste" functionality to place search terms into the Search windows text field. (3° mouse button to past) This is not refering to the Quick Search, but the Search dialog box you get when you click the Search button in the toolbar at the top of the window.

When you open the Search window the text of the last search criteria is selected. This causes the paste function, accessed by clicking the scroll wheel, to no longer function correctly. Clicking the scroll wheel should "paste" the "cut" text into the Search field. Instead clicking the scroll wheel results in no text being pasted into the Search field.

== HOW TO REPRODUCE ==
- open the 'findwindow' (edit->search)
- enter a string in the text entry and search
- Select (highlight) a string with your mouse
- open the 'findwindow' (edit->search) again
- paste with the 3rd button.

Result:
You can't paste. The buffer has been replaced by the highlighted text in the find window

Here a very simple patch to solve the problem

diff -r synaptic-0.62.2ubuntu2/gtk/rgfindwindow.cc synaptic-0.62.2ubuntu2-jmb0007/gtk/rgfindwindow.cc
45c45
< gtk_editable_select_region(GTK_EDITABLE(entry), 0, -1);
---
> gtk_editable_select_region(GTK_EDITABLE(entry), 0, 0);

regards
jm

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You might find the following links useful. They cover "Best Practices" and how to get your patch reviewed and possibly merged in Ubuntu. Good luck and thank you for your contribution.

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[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

I was able to reproduce this behavior.

I did notice that right clicking in the Search Field and then selecting "paste" in the contextual window did work appropriately.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Confirmed in Installed: 0.63.1ubuntu1
@duanedesign, the reporter means paste a previously highlighted text with the middle button of the mouse which is different from CTRL+C/CTRL+V