Re: Help with copy/paste from/to Qt command Window

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 04/22/2013 02:54 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> What needs to be done to enable copying text from or pasting text to the
> Qt command window?
>
> What should we do about the conflict with the customary Windows
> keybinding for Ctrl-C to copy text vs. using that to generate an interrupt?
>
> I think it would be acceptable to have Ctrl-C interrupt when Octave is
> executing commands in the interpreter and otherwise copy text, but it's
> not clear to me how to switch keybindings. Can someone with Qt
> experience comment?

Make it configurable, perhaps.  The default should probably be that if 
the terminal window is in focus, Ctrl-C will break the Octave process 
back to the command line.  If focus is somewhere outside the terminal 
window, Ctrl-C could always mean copy.  Cntrl-V would still mean paste 
inside the terminal window.  There is a right mouse click menu item 
having copy and paste entries.

A configuration in the Peferences... could make Cntrl-C mean "copy what 
is highlighted" in the terminal window.  Of course, the center mouse 
button (for those who still use one) works for non-clipboard copying. 
If that is an option, then there would have to be some menu selection or 
icon for breaking out of the Octave process.  That should actually be a 
set of functions in a "run" group, "run" not being totally worked out 
just yet.

Focus behavior needs a small bit of work.  Someone already mentioned it 
jumps around unexpectedly.

Debugging needs work--not only GUI aspect, but probably the core as well.

Dan