[PyKDE] A few minor (but irritating :) ) editor bugs in Eric 3.4.2

[Detlev Offenbach]

Am Donnerstag, 16. September 2004 23:15 schrieb Mike C. Fletcher:
> More info, and one correction:
>
> Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> > .ebuild for Gentoo with KDE 3.3/Xorg-X11 on an AMD64 native build.
>
> Was wrong about the KDE version, it's KDE 3.2.2, I'll try compiling KDE
> 3.2.3 this evening to see if that helps.
>
> > 1) Arrow-key-after select+(ctrl-c) does not clear the selection and
> > does not move the cursor (silently swallowed).
> >
> >    To reproduce, select a line or two of text and hit ctrl-c to copy
> >    it.  Now, hit down or up arrow.  About 1 time on 10 this will *not*
> >    clear the selection.  I haven't been able to isolate the conditions
> >    under which it doesn't work, will keep playing with it to see if I
> > can.
>
> Okay, to reproduce, hold down shift while moving arrows to select text.
> While still holding down the shift-key, press the ctrl to start hitting
> ctrl-c, release the shift-key and press c.  Result is that the selection
> is not copied, and the first arrow-key movement afterward is swallowed.
> Looks as though something is incorrectly tracking shift/ctrl state
> resulting in a rather touchy editing mechanism where one hand getting a
> little faster than the other results in a complete failure of the
> operation (with select-and-cut/copy being a rather common operation for
> a programmer's editor).
>
> Enjoy yourselves,
> Mike
>

It works ok over here with the current snapshot KDE 3.3.3 and the latest 
QScintilla and PyQt (versions/snapshots).

Detlev
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