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Bug 314065

Summary:	[Workbench] Selected text (containing underscores), copied with Ctrl + Insert, does not paste correctly into Gnome VteTerminal widget using Shift + Insert
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	danielewski <master>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	akurtakov, ericwill, prakash, pwebster
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux-GTK
Whiteboard:

Description danielewski

2010-05-24 04:14:04 EDT

Build Identifier: M20100211-1343

When I copy selected text using Ctrl+Insert (text must contain underscore, for example DOC_NAMESPACE), then paste using Shift+Insert into gnome-terminal based app (for example Midnight Commander search dialog) only part of string is pasted (from underscore). At first I suspected Gnome's VteTerminal and filed bug:  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552788 (see for more details) but after debugging I realized that it's rather problem with Eclipse itself (probably Eclipse sets PRIMARY buffer incorrectly, pasting from CLIPBOARD buffer works OK).
 It happened with Eclipse 3.3, but 3.5 also suffers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select text with underscore
2. Copy using Ctrl+Insert
3. Switch to gnome-terminal kind of application (like Midnight Commander)
4. Paste with Shift+Insert

Comment 1 Praveen

2010-05-28 08:00:15 EDT

I am not able to reproduce the paste problem on my machine when the text (containing underscore) is copied/pasted.
Do you have any utilities like Klipper/Glipper running on your system ? Are you able to reproduce the same behavior using 3.6 builds as well ? Can you provide the Linux distro of your machine ?

Comment 2 danielewski

2010-05-31 08:20:17 EDT

I've tried with Eclipse 3.3 and 3.5 with Fedora 6 and Ubuntu 9.10, do not use any helper utilities.

I also found what is ESSENTIAL to reproduce this bug:
DO NOT mark selection with mouse!
DO NOT mark selection by holding (just) Shift!

MARK by holding Ctrl+Shift (this is crucial!) and moving cursor using arrow's keys, then Ctrl+Insert to copy, switch to gnome-terminal and Shift+Insert to paste.
 Moreover, you can note that whats copy/pasted depends on direction of marking (cool, huh).

Comment 3 danielewski

2011-05-16 09:31:31 EDT

Recent release "Helios" also suffers the same issue.

Comment 4 Alexander Kurtakov

2018-07-13 09:02:05 EDT

Reproduced with today's I-build.

Comment 5 Eric Williams

2019-02-21 15:43:08 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 290851 ***