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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/20 11:34 AM, Benjamin Berg
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 21:24 +0100, Johannes Thrän wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> - 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
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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.</pre>
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<p>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". <br>
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<p>There are widgets that do what you specified. My thunderbird
preview windowlet for example. <br>
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Trying the combination, it feels quite hard to pull off to me and
really not discoverable at all.
Benjamin
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>Johannes<br>
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