SUMMARY Since today, selecting text with the Shift key no longer populates the selection clipboard, which forces me to use the clipboard with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Since Ctrl+C does not affect the selection clipboard, this makes it difficult to conveniently copy a section of text to multiple locations. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open Kate or KDevelop with some long text. 2. Click a point in the text. 3. Clear Klipper. 4. Hold Shift and click another point in the text. OBSERVED RESULT Nothing is copied to any clipboard. Text is just selected. EXPECTED RESULT Selected text is copied to selection clipboard. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.22 KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.11.0-37-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The click, Shift+click workflow still works in any other application, and many other ways to populate the selection keyboard in KTextEditor still work. This includes: * Select with click-drag-release * Select with click, Shift + navigation keys * Select with double-click or triple-click * Select with double- or triple-click-drag-release But it doesn’t work with: (I can not confirm that these worked before) * Select with Ctrl+A
Testing with latest git, selection seems to populate the clipboard. Can you confirm if this is still an issue? Selection with Ctrl + A won't populate the clipboard, but that is being tracked in a separate bug.
> Testing with latest git, selection seems to populate the clipboard. Can you > confirm if this is still an issue? It still doesn’t work on KDE Neon user edition, Kate 21.12.1, KF 5.90. :(
> Selection with Ctrl + A won't populate the clipboard, but that is being tracked in a separate bug. This one got fixed yesterday. Maybe you can try again, and also make sure that Klipper settings are correct. I am still unable to reproduce. Can you also check whether middle mouse button copy/pasting for selection works? If that works, then it could be a config issue.
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I tested this on my other computer, which has KDE Neon developer edition, with KF 5.91 and Kate 22.03.70. It still doesn’t work as I described in “Steps to reproduce”. But it works if I do “Hold shift and click-and-drag somewhere else” instead of step 4. I. e. I need to do a slight mouse movement during the second click.
Hmm, true, can reproduce that :( Even with the current master branch.
Git commit d320988fb7bfd034288ec5e2495323474426ac9e by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 02/10/2022 at 19:33. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'. fix clipboard selection update on shift mouse click M +5 -0 src/view/kateviewinternal.cpp https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ktexteditor/commit/d320988fb7bfd034288ec5e2495323474426ac9e
Ok, should be fixed.