Max Williams
July 31st, 2008, 12:14 PM
Sometimes, when i copy some text (with ctrl&c) in gedit, it is silently pasted somewhere else in the same text file, without me realising. When i say silently, i mean that the page view doesn't jump to the paste location, so there's no signal that anything's happened. It happened to me just now when i selected some text to copy into a different file, and it happened at the point of ctrl&c'ing the text.
I know that the first reaction when hearing this is that i'm being an idiot and pasting it without realising, and maybe that is the case. But it happens to me fairly frequently - maybe 3% of the time, ie 1 in every 30 or so copies. Most of the time, because it's silent, i don't notice, until my app breaks and i go looking, to find a big wodge of text randomly inserted into the middle of a method call.
If i am accidentally doing it, i'd love to know how, so i can avoid it. As far as i know i'm not doing anything out of the ordinary. One possibility is that there's some sequence of 'copy-pageup-paste-pagedown' happening, i have no idea how i would trigger that though. If i am just mashing ctrl-v down at the same time as ctrl-c i'd expect the text to appear in the same place, not somewhere else in the doc.
I'm using gedit 2.22.3 in Ubuntu 8.04, but i used to have the same problem when i was running gutsy in a virtual machine in windows.
Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone think of a way i might be doing this without realising? It's really annoying and i really like gedit for development, besides this issue.
thanks
max
I know that the first reaction when hearing this is that i'm being an idiot and pasting it without realising, and maybe that is the case. But it happens to me fairly frequently - maybe 3% of the time, ie 1 in every 30 or so copies. Most of the time, because it's silent, i don't notice, until my app breaks and i go looking, to find a big wodge of text randomly inserted into the middle of a method call.
If i am accidentally doing it, i'd love to know how, so i can avoid it. As far as i know i'm not doing anything out of the ordinary. One possibility is that there's some sequence of 'copy-pageup-paste-pagedown' happening, i have no idea how i would trigger that though. If i am just mashing ctrl-v down at the same time as ctrl-c i'd expect the text to appear in the same place, not somewhere else in the doc.
I'm using gedit 2.22.3 in Ubuntu 8.04, but i used to have the same problem when i was running gutsy in a virtual machine in windows.
Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone think of a way i might be doing this without realising? It's really annoying and i really like gedit for development, besides this issue.
thanks
max