Copy/paste in FXText

ruby-talk
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I’ve been playing around with FXIrb, and I’ve run into a weird
problem. When I select a block of text and copy, then paste without
clearing the highlight, it moves rather than copies the selected text.
Is this a feature, and if so how do I disable it?

(Ruby 1.8.1-11, Pragprog installer on Win98 SE. The code’s up at
http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?FXIrb/Experimental in case I’ve done
something else stupid)

martin

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Martin DeMello wrote:

I’ve been playing around with FXIrb, and I’ve run into a weird
problem. When I select a block of text and copy, then paste without
clearing the highlight, it moves rather than copies the selected text.

I don’t think I’ve ever used a text editor or word processor that didn’t
behave this way (blowing away the selected text when you do a paste).

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I experimented with Word and gvim - I think my mistake is in persisting
the selection when the cursor moves off it. I’ll prolly need to
auto-copy and kill the selection.

martin

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Lyle Johnson lyle@knology.net wrote:

Martin DeMello wrote:

I’ve been playing around with FXIrb, and I’ve run into a weird
problem. When I select a block of text and copy, then paste without
clearing the highlight, it moves rather than copies the selected text.

I don’t think I’ve ever used a text editor or word processor that didn’t
behave this way (blowing away the selected text when you do a paste).