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- To: Allan Kelly <akelly@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: vim developers list <vim-dev@vim.org>
- Subject: patch 5.4p.1 (was: selection funny-ness)
- In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.990719095104.16734C-100000@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
- Fcc: outbox
- From: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>
- ------------
-
- Allan Kelly wrote:
-
- > Hi, I often work with 2 gvim windows, using the very handy 'visual selection is
- > clipboard selection' feature to copy code around. It's great, but I have
- > behaviour I don't see in other apps: Select text in one gvim, it becomes
- > hilighted (yellow bgcolor for me) then select text in the other gvim, it too
- > becomes selected, but the first selection changes to underlined text. hmm.
- > Now hit <ESC> in both windows to clear the selections, and 'gv' in the
- > window where the first selection was made. It's still underlined, not
- > yellow. And it isn't the 'clipboard' selection (mouse pasting doesn't paste
- > it).
- >
- > What's going on?
-
- It's a bug. The code that gets the selection only checks if the area changed.
- It doesn't notice that the selection was given away and should be obtained
- again. This also happens with Athena and Motif.
-
-
- Patch 5.4p.1
- Problem: When using auto-select, and the "gv" command is used, would not
- always obtain ownership of the selection. Caused by the Visual
- area still being the same, but ownership taken away by another
- program.
- Solution: Reset the clipboard Visual mode to force updating the selection.
- Files: src/normal.c
-
-
- *** ../vim-5.4p/src/normal.c Mon Jul 19 11:09:17 1999
- --- src/normal.c Mon Jul 19 11:59:21 1999
- ***************
- *** 4991,4996 ****
- --- 4991,5001 ----
- #ifdef USE_MOUSE
- setmouse();
- #endif
- + #ifdef USE_CLIPBOARD
- + /* Make sure the clipboard gets updated. Needed because start and
- + * end are still the same, and the selection needs to be owned */
- + clipboard.vmode = NUL;
- + #endif
- update_curbuf(NOT_VALID);
- showmode();
- }
-
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