copy paste with wheel mouse

[Ferdinand]

Binary package hint: gedit

Hi,

I can copy (select) a text but not paste it with the wheel mouse in gedit. However if the text is selected in another application and then paste in gedit, it works.
I guess this is a bug since I have no problem to copy paste under Gnome-terminal or Epiphany

gedit 2.17.3
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Best regards

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Thanks for the bugreport.

Actually
1. select text from somewhere else and paste to Gedit works,
2. select text from Gedit and paste to somewhere else works,
4. select text from Gedit and paste it into another Gedit buffer does work,
3. but select text from Gedit and paste it into the same Gedit buffer does not work.

Feisty, x86.

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Gedit 2.17.4, seems to be fixed now. Anyone can confirm?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Confirmed, works for me :)

[Áron Sisak (asisak)]

Thanks pochu! I mark it fixed, then.

[Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj)]

It still does not work when the insertion point is at selection end.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Write ABC.
2. Select AB.
3. Paste between B and C.

Expected result:
[AB]ABC (selection in brackets)

Actual result:
ABC (no selection)

Workaround (clumsy):
1. Insert a space before C.
2. Paste after the space.
3. Erase the space.

Reverting to confirmed then.

[tulsoba (tulsoba)]

I does not work in my version either (Ubuntu 7.10 gedit 2.20.3). I have typed some text but when I select with the mouse and press the middle mouse button nothing happens.

[tulsoba (tulsoba)]

I does not work in my version either (Ubuntu 7.10 gedit 2.20.3). I have typed some text but when I select with the mouse and press the middle mouse button nothing happens. The same problem with geany

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.

[tulsoba (tulsoba)]

I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and still cannot paste with the middle mousebutton. So on my system this is still a problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you describe easy steps to trigger the bug on hardy?

[tulsoba (tulsoba)]

1) Right-click on desktop and chose: Create document-> New Document -> Empty File.
2) Open the new file with gedit and type some text.
3) Select the text with the mouse cursor and left-click after the text.
4) Then press the middle-mouse button to paste the text.

Nothing happens when I complete step 4). It works fine in firefox and in this message that I am currently writing.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

alright, that's gtk bug #34629

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.