copy text after selection

[mirkobau]

if i select a text in the visible-history area or in the past history panel, i get a dark area under it, and that's ok.

but now, i surely would have an option to copy that selection.
so i right-click... nothing appears. i expected a small popup with the well-known "copy/cut (grayed)/paste (grayed)" options.

unique solution actually: press CTRL+C.

that's okay, but i'd like to suggest this:
since i selected, i certainly will copy that selection; so why not autoMAGICally copy that selection to the clipboard?
you can find this exact functionality that i just described in the ssh client 'putty' (www.puttyssh.org) and it's very useful.

thank you.

[sander (s-devrieze)]

This feature would break consistency with the user interface of your operating system. When you use Coccinella on Linux or FreeBSD, you have this feature out-of-the-box in *all* your applications. Maybe you should consider switching to an operating system that better suits your needs by providing you this feature in all your applications?

[mirkobau (j-launchpad-mirkobau-it)]

i understand that copying-after-selection is difficult to implement in windows.
obviously i can't switch to another operating system, because i have particular programs running only in Win, and i need them to work.
this doesn't mean i don't like linux: i love it.
I tried to understand the source; i'll try - onde day - to implement the feature by myself. Hope to have time :p

ciao :)