Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!takemy.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'apps,': 0.07; 'indicated': 0.07; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'expected.': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'apps': 0.15; 'options.': 0.15; '2:47': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'should.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'copied': 0.18; "shouldn't": 0.18; '>>>': 0.20; 'select': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'command': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'van': 0.26; 'subject:/': 0.30; 'window': 0.30; "can't": 0.32; 'scanned': 0.32; 'worked': 0.34; 'text': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'depends': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; '>>>>>': 0.66; 'sounds': 0.76; 'click': 0.76; 'received:12': 0.81; 'water,': 0.84; 'edwards': 0.91; 'grew': 0.91; 'catalog': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Emile van Sebille Subject: Re: Can I copy/paste Python code? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:39:51 -0700 References: <0f0c6018-50e7-4e95-a798-313d767ce177@googlegroups.com> <201507211725.t6LHPW1Y028074@fido.openend.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: www.westernstatesglass.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1437601213 news.xs4all.nl 2882 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58252 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94402 On 7/22/2015 12:35 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-07-22, Emile van Sebille wrote: >> On 7/21/2015 5:10 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2015-07-21, Emile van Sebille wrote: >>>> On 7/21/2015 2:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>>>> 1) You can't copy/paste text from evince _at_all_. >>>> >>>> Hmm, i just copied "Acorsa Artichoke Heart - Quarter, Water, Can" from a >>>> catalog pdf, so _at_all_ depends on something -- I couldn't copy text >>>> from scanned documents, but that's to be expected. >>> >>> Interesting. How do you do it? For all other apps, all you have to do >>> is select the text and then center-click in the window where you want >>> the selected text inserted. >> >> Well, I select and right click copy then right click paste in where I >> want it. I never got into the center click options. > > That must be using something other than the standard X11 clipboard > copy/paste mechnism. You shouldn't have to "right click copy", and > many of the apps I paste into don't even have a "right click paste". > > It sounds like evince has abandoned the trie-and true X11 clipboard > functionality that people have been using for 30 years. > Well, that may be more my issue than evince's -- my unix-ish habits grew up with the command line more so that X. At any rate, I did try middle click after you mentioned it and it worked as you'd indicated it should. Not-that-that-helps-you-any-ly yr's, Emile