Allow paste (ctrl+v) in GNOME Do

[antistress]

That will be great to allow user to paste words into GNOME Do

Ex : reading a blog, i see a soft that i want to install
i have the apturl functionnality in GNOME Do
that would be great to install the soft with :
copy soft name / open Do / paste soft name / execute
( ctrl+c / super+space / ctrl+v / enter )

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Please learn to use the selected text item.

1. Highlight the software name on the blog you're reading (you don't need to copy).
2. Bring up Do, type "apturl".
3. Press enter (Do should put "Selected Text" item in the second pane."

This way, you don't need to type control-C, control-V, or TAB. Also, we don't have to change Do.

[Ian McKellar (ianloic)]

I have a patch to support ctrl-v. I don't understand this selected text item. I mean, I can type "selected text" to get it and then easily trigger the "copy to clipboard" action, but I don't like that at all. My patch is perhaps imperfect, but it's pretty simple.

[Ian McKellar (ianloic)]

I added a patch so I'm reopening this. I hope that's not too rude. I think supporting ctrl-v is valuable.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

See Dave's comment. Why would you do selected text and then copy to clipboard? Copy to clipboard is for going from Do to the clipboard so that you can use text from Do in other apps; like say Pastebin returns a url, you can copy it to clipboard and then paste it into an IM, or IRC conversation. Selected text is like using ctrl + V and pasting text *into* do, but IMO better.

[Shreyas (shres)]

This could potentially be a part of the fix needed by bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/264859

Since i use gnome-do now to twitter, adding selected text + a few comments around the link is trivial use case.

[Ian McKellar (ianloic)]

@Alex, I don't understand. Is there currently a way to get text from my CLIPBOARD (or PRIMARY) selection into Do? If there is it's not at all obvious.

@Shreyas, this helps a little with that bug. if more complete editing was added then my patch would probably have to be rewritten though.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Ian McKellar <email address hidden> wrote:

> @Alex, I don't understand. Is there currently a way to get text from my
> CLIPBOARD (or PRIMARY) selection into Do? If there is it's not at all
> obvious.
>
>
I don't understand what's not obvious about that. Select some text, summon
do, and then type "Selected Text", it will use the text you currently have
selected.

--
--Alex Launi

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Ian, the "Selected Text" item in Do is a representation of your currently
selected text; it's basically equivalent to the text item you would end up
if you copied a bloc of text, summoned Do, and pasted that text into Do. For
example, if you highlight the word "bear" in Firefox, summon Do, and type
"Selected" to bring up the Selected Text item, the Selected Text item will
act as the word "bear" when you use it. There's no intermediate step to take
before you use the Selected Text item. Maybe you're thinking too much about
how to use it -- it's incredible simple. Select some text in any
application, then use the Selected Text item as a proxy for that selection.

David

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Alex Launi <email address hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Ian McKellar <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > @Alex, I don't understand. Is there currently a way to get text from my
> > CLIPBOARD (or PRIMARY) selection into Do? If there is it's not at all
> > obvious.
> >
> >
> I don't understand what's not obvious about that. Select some text, summon
> do, and then type "Selected Text", it will use the text you currently have
> selected.
>
> --
> --Alex Launi
>
> --
> Allow paste (ctrl+v) in GNOME Do
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/213686
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[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

I think I see what the reporter wants to do. They don't want to just
take the contents of the clipboard as their item, they want to
*incorporate* the contents of their clipboard in an item.

Use case:
Bob finds a link to a an excellent old DOS game called "Syndicate" on
the web and wants to alert his thousands of Twittees to it. He right
clicks on the link and selects "Copy link location", summons Do, selects
text mode, and types "Hey d00dz! Check out this sweet game <ctrl>+<v>!"
<tab> tweet.

All his friends now know the awesomeness that is Syndicate.

This seems a reasonable use-case to me. Marking as confirmed. It might
not be easy to implement, but I think it's worth doing.

 status confirmed
 importance wishlist

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

This has been added and released in the Do testers PPA. When Do 0.7 is released, it will contain this change. Thank you.

[Randall Leeds (randall-leeds)]

Using gnome-do_0.8.0-0~intrepid~ppa1 <ctrl>+<v> does nothing.
The use case cited by Chris (Microblogging plugin, eg Twitter) is the one that made me notice the lack of this feature.

A similar use case is to make a TinyURL from Selected Text using Do and then paste that text in a tweet.

[Randall Leeds (randall-leeds)]

Switching back to Confirmed. Please tell me if I'm missing something.