improve PRIMARY buffer copy-paste behaviour, paste over
Johannes Thrän
johannes.thraen at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 12:33:15 UTC 2020
On 3/6/20 11:34 AM, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 21:24 +0100, Johannes Thrän wrote:
>> - the PRIMARY buffer is only updated on left button up events
>> - a text selection is replaced by the contents of the PRIMARY buffer
>> when a middle click is registered within it
> I don't think that interaction is well enough defined. i.e. if you
> double or tripple click to select words/lines then you would need to
> define that the buffer must only be updated after the
> double/triple/quadruple click timeout happens.
You are right. If I get the wayland protocol for primary selection
right, it also also discourages the clients to update the buffer
whenever the selection changes and formulates it along the lines of:
"when the selection is finished".
There are widgets that do what you specified. My thunderbird preview
windowlet for example.
>
> Trying the combination, it feels quite hard to pull off to me and
> really not discoverable at all.
>
> Benjamin
Tom discovered it many years ago, didn't he :). No seriously, of course
this is very not obvious. It would be a power user feature that one has
to be introduced to, like many others. Think of it this way: many regard
the middle mouse paste as a unique selling point for linux. Improving on
an already existing unique selling can only be good. It might not be
easy to do first try :) yes. I don't find it hard, but even if: never
having to think about pressing ctrl-c *before, would be certainly worth
practicing.
Johannes
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