Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Can I copy/paste Python code? Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <0f0c6018-50e7-4e95-a798-313d767ce177@googlegroups.com> <201507211725.t6LHPW1Y028074@fido.openend.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-118-110-103.hsd1.mn.comcast.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1437523803 12356 24.118.110.103 (22 Jul 2015 00:10:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 00:10:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94328 On 2015-07-21, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 7/21/2015 2:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-07-21, Emile van Sebille wrote: >>> On 7/21/2015 1:32 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>> But, it apears foxit reader is Windows-only so it's a moot point for >>>> Linux/Unix/Mac users. >>> >>> I've been happy with https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince on linux. >> >> I'm trying to switch from acroread to evince, bit it has a few serious >> usability problems for me: >> >> 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. I've tried everything I can think of with evince, and it's not putting the selected text in any of the three X11 clipboards or buffers, so I'm stumped. -- Grant