Alt-d acting like "cut"

[Bruno Bord]

Looks like Alt-d is acting like "cut", as in "cut 'n' paste".

Steps:

* Have a multiple line file opened in Scribes
* select a line
* Copy it (via Ctrl-C) for example
* Check that "paste" is working (Ctrl-V)
* move your cursor to another line.
* delete it using Alt-d.
* Now paste your clipboard content
* the line you've deleted using "alt-d" appears.

That seems wrong to me. The content I've copied in my clipboard was meant to be in it until I need it, and not being wiped out by the use of "delete line".

Is it a bug or an unexpected feature?

[Bruno Bord (brunobord)]

Here is my scribes -i

$ scribes -i
bruno@sheldon:~$ ========================================================
System Info: ('Linux', 'sheldon', '2.6.35-25-generic', '#44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011', 'i686')
Python Version: 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 15:52:39)
[GCC 4.4.5]
System Byteorder: little
Python Modules: ('__builtin__', '__main__', '_ast', '_bisect', '_codecs', '_collections', '_functools', '_hashlib', '_locale', '_random', '_socket', '_sre', '_ssl', '_struct', '_symtable', '_warnings', '_weakref', 'array', 'binascii', 'cPickle', 'cStringIO', 'errno', 'exceptions', 'fcntl', 'gc', 'grp', 'imp', 'itertools', 'marshal', 'math', 'operator', 'posix', 'pwd', 'select', 'signal', 'spwd', 'strop', 'sys', 'syslog', 'thread', 'time', 'unicodedata', 'xxsubtype', 'zipimport', 'zlib')
========================================================
Scribes Version: 0.4-dev-build899
Dbus Version: (0, 83, 0)
GTK+ Version: (2, 22, 0)
PyGTK Version: (2, 21, 0)
Psyco Not Installed
========================================================
Running Instance: 0
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Python Path: /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
Plugin Path: /usr/lib/scribes/GenericPlugins
Data Path: /usr/share/scribes
Executable Path: /usr/bin
========================================================

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

It's a feature. All (almost) delete operations are copied to the clipboard. It's inspired from VIM.

[Bruno Bord (brunobord)]

well... I'm a bit disappointed. I quite like vim when I need to use it, but I'm using Scribes because it's not vim.... I really wonder how this workflow is meant to help.

That'd *force* me to delete the lines I don't need *before* copying anything in my clipboard.
Or open a blank file, paste what I want to paste later on, doing "normal" operations (such as delete) and then re-open the dumb blank file, and copy paste from this to the actual buffer.

That's a constraint, because deleted lines are meant to be deleted, not saved, IMHO. And that'd force me *not* to use this convenient "delete line" shortcut when I want to clean the files I'm working on.

[Mystilleef (mystilleef)]

I'll remove it. I don't think it has much utility.