[Users] [Bug 4258] X selection is cleared when highlight is deselected

[Chad Wallace]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:46:48 +0100
Dave Howorth <dave at howorth.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:24:42 -0700
> Chad Wallace <cwallace at lodgingcompany.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:19:36 +0200
> > Lewis <lewyssmith at free.fr> wrote:
> >   
> > > Seconded. It is particularly annoying when you try to copy/paste
> > > an e-mail address from a message list in order to compose an
> > > e-mail thereto (rather than replying & changing the subject),
> > > without adding that address to the address book.    
> > 
> > When I want to do that, I just right-click on the address and pick
> > "Compose new message" from the dropdown menu.  Also, "Reply to this
> > address" on that same menu comes in handy very often.  
> 
> Either you or me is confused. I think the message list is the part of
> the display that holds a list of messages. I don't know any way to
> select an email address in that list, and I don't see those entries in
> the context menu when I click above an email address in the list. I do
> see those entries when I right-click on an email address in a message
> display, but that's a different situation, so not what's being
> discussed, I think.

Yes, I was talking about the preview pane.  I had missed the part where
Lewis said "message list". I can't do any text selecting in the message
list.

> > I also would like to see the selection buffer behaviour fixed, but I
> > have a feeling the fix for that is not within Claws itself, but in
> > GTK.  Other GTK apps I use have similar problems with select &
> > middle click.  
> 
> I just tried using gedit as a representative GTK application and I
> don't see the 'faulty' behaviour. If I select some text in a message,
> which might be an address, and then click elsewhere in claws, I can
> still paste the text that was selected into gedit. So I don't
> understand what is wrong.
> 
> I use claws 3.16.0, so I suppose it's possible there's been a
> regression?

I just tried it with gedit (3.14.0), and it's the same as Claws
(3.14.1). While the text is selected, I can paste it with a middle
click.  But then if I clear the selection, a middle click does nothing.

Meld also does that for me.

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