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

[PhilipNienhuis]

Daniel Sebald wrote
> 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.

My suggestion was and is more or less what John mentioned above: 
(if the command window has focus:) Ctrl-C to interrupt Octave when it is at
work, otherwise copy highlighted/selected text from the command window.
I think it goes without saying that in order to copy something from a window
or pane, that window or pane must have focus anyway.

AFAIK the vast majority of Windows programs already work that way, with the
notable exception of the cmd32.exe terminal/console.
Even more, may GUI programs on Linux already use Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V
as well.


> 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.

I find it hard to follow what you mean to say here, apologies.

To make things configurable would be great - but IMO that is no priority.

Philip




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