Text widget does not support standard commands

[Michael B. Trausch]

Binary package hint: empathy

Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, though the bug was also present, I think, in 9.10.

When typing a message, the basic editing commands one expects a text entry box to have in the GTK+ environment do not work. For example, Ctrl+C for copy, Ctrl+Z for undo.

There are a couple different (but frequent!) usage scenarios that this causes issues for me with:

1. My trackpad sometimes inadvertently selects all text. Then the next character I type erases everything in the text box, and I am unable to undo to get it back.

2. Sometimes, I need to send the exact same text to multiple persons. I'd prefer to do this with Ctrl+C to copy, change tabs, and then Ctrl+V to paste. But, I cannot, and I have to use the mouse to highlight and middle-click the selection into the next tab or window.

The biggest problem is the first one; however, implementing all of the basic functionality that is reasonably expected of a text editing widget would be immensely helpful.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32.12 x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 14 12:13:25 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

thanks for the bug report can you please tell a few steps to reproduce this bug? I can copy, paste and cut with ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+x respectively without any problem.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 09:46 +0000, Omer Akram wrote:
> thanks for the bug report can you please tell a few steps to reproduce
> this bug? I can copy, paste and cut with ctrl+c, ctrl+v, ctrl+x
> respectively without any problem.

  status new

Control+X works just fine, as does Control+V.

Control+C does not, nor does Control+Z (which is the *most* important
thing in this this bug report!).

To reproduce:

1. open a chat window
2. type something in that chat window
3. type Control+Z to "undo". It does not work.

As far as copy, that seems to be working at the moment, but when I filed
this bug I was unable to get it to work, just working with the UI in the
standard way. However, that's really also not anywhere near as
important as implementing undo. To see the real problem, copy and paste
this ¶ into Empathy. Then highlight it, and type "a". Then go "Oops!"
and type Control+Z to get it back. It won't work. Now imagine having
that problem _while_ typing it, and you can see what the issue is.

 --- Mike

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[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This bug might be related to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322194

[Pavol Klačanský (pavolzetor-deactivatedaccount)]

and cannot copy chat messages, which were posted, but from history, it is possible

I use default theme in lucid

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I found steps to reproduce ctrl+c bug so opened an upstream bug. the keys that dont work should be reported as separate bug.

[tutuca (tutuca)]

Confirmed as affecting empathy in maverick merkaat

[psypher (psypher246)]

Any update on this issue? It is extremely annoying. Do we need more info, or tests? Or does it need to be logged upstream?

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

Confirmed as affecting empathy in Natty Narwhal

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru)]

This was actually reported earlier as bug #459851, which is incorrectly marked as fixed.