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Re: [Bug-apl] aplwrap needs to be able to edit paste lines


From: Chris Moller
Subject: Re: [Bug-apl] aplwrap needs to be able to edit paste lines
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:52:51 -0400
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.7.0

It all works fine here:

Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)

kernel 3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP GNU/Linux

gtk3-3.10.9-1.fc20.x86_64


On 09/12/14 12:43, Blake McBride wrote:
Dear David,

I am using the latest git on aplwrap but the backspace on paste still doesn't work for me.

Glad to hear someone else is getting the crash error.

Thanks.

Blake

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, David B. Lamkins <address@hidden> wrote:
To be clear: this patch is for the copy/paste behavior.

There's still the crash on exit; I'll write about that in the other
thread.

On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 12:27 -0400, Chris Moller wrote:
> I just applied that patch and pushed it to github.  Blake, can you try
> it and see if you still get errors?
>
> Thx
>
>
> On 09/12/14 12:20, David B. Lamkins wrote:
>
> > I sent Chris a patch for this issue.
> >
> > On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 07:51 -0700, David B. Lamkins wrote:
> > > I noticed that last night.
> > >
> > > The GTK+ framework preserves text attributes during copy and paste.
> > > Since the transcript text is not editable, neither is a pasted copy of
> > > some selection of that text.
> > >
> > > I'll see whether I can figure out how to override that behavior.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile, you can use aplwrap's "copy-down" feature. Select some text
> > > in the transcript and press Enter; the selection will be copied down to
> > > the input area; this copy is editable.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 07:32 -0500, Blake McBride wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If I type a line, before I hit enter I can backspace or arrow around
> > > > the line to edit it.  This is very convenient when you type in a long
> > > > line and realize you made a typo somewhere in the middle.  You are
> > > > able to correct the problem without retyping the rest of the line.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, sometime you want to copy from somewhere else, paste
> > > > the line where you are, and then make a small edit to it.  Aplwrap
> > > > will allow you to edit a line you type but not a line you paste.
> > > >  Treating the paste like a typed in line is very beneficial.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Blake
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
>





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