We had a recent discussion about X11 pasting behavior on the Padre IRC channel.

This is no Perl challenge, but we're building a Perl IDE and this is why I'ld like to know your preference. Apologies for mis-using perlmonks with this.

The test case was:

abc
def

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  • abc was selected first
  • def is the current selection
  • The mouse pointer is placed over the "e" of def

    • We noticed three different middle-mouse-button pasting ways throughout the X11 world:

    1. "abc" is inserted before/after the e making the second line "deabcf"

    2. nothing happens at all, because the current selection "def" replaces the current selection "def" (gedit and poedit do this)

    3. "abc" is used to replace the current selection "def" (the last selection is used to replace the current one), this is what Padre did in the last releases.

    4. "def" is appended again (pasted at the text cursor's position), this is what Ubuntu's shell and xman's search input do.

    I'ld like to know...

  • Which option is what you'd call "X11 default"?
  • Which option would be your favorite for a editor/IDE?

    • Thank you.

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