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Bug 107685

Summary: copying selected text to clipboard becomes unusably slow
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Chris Wiebe <cwiebe>
Component: TextAssignee: Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: All   
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Description Chris Wiebe CLA 2005-08-22 21:22:57 EDT 
After running eclipse for a while, the copy-to-clipboard behaviour becomes unusable.  In the java text 
editor, if I double-click to select some text, then immediately do a copy (Command-C) it does not work 
50% of the time, so when I do a paste I get the previous clipboard contents instead of what I was 
expecting.  Then I have to undo and try again.  And then try again, sometimes several times before it 
"takes."  This is such a common workflow pattern (select-copy-paste) that it is a huge impediment 
when it doesn't as expected.  It doesn't seem to matter how big the file I'm editing is.

The only workaround is to double-click to select and then wait about 2 seconds before doing a copy, or 
alternatively, quit and restart Eclipse.  After restarting things return to normal for a while but inevitably 
after a while (perhaps 1-2 hours?) it gets slow again.
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2005-08-23 04:11:00 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68069 ***