Windows 10 JDK 8 through 16 See prior discussion here: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/netbeans-dev/202102.mbox/%3c21fb7d82-e02c-4a4f-8bd7-605615cc5...@gmail.com%3e
It seems many of us are just used to Copy and Paste not working properly and we have various strategies to work around it. It shouldn’t be that way. Scott > On Apr 7, 2021, at 1:15 PM, Geertjan Wielenga > <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote: > > Operating system, JDK version, please... > > Gj > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 7:13 PM Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com > <mailto:swpal...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> I know it probably is the same as before, but today it seems worse in 12.4 >> beta 2 than it was in 12.3. >> >> Cut and paste is such basic functionality that when it doesn’t work it is >> a major source of frustration. >> >> Today I have been fighting cut and paste not working with NetBeans 12.4 >> beta 2 for a few hours. Jumping through hoops to cut some text out of a >> NetBeans editor and paste it into something else is not how I wanted to >> spend my morning. >> >> This was discussed briefly in early February (see thread “System Clipboard >> Issues”) >> >> It is has been reported here >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2159 < >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2159 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2159>> >> Though that description is perhaps incomplete. Both copying from NetBeans >> and pasting to NetBeans are affected. >> >> If you are doing cut and paste entirely within NetBeans you may not see >> the issue. It is only when you want to cut and paste between NetBeans and >> an external program that it fails. And it fails very frequently in that >> case. >> >> The sense I got was that NetBeans was trying to work around a bug in the >> JRE by using it’s own private clipboard. I suspect the original JRE issue >> is long gone and NetBeans is just creating more problems with an awkward >> workaround for a problem that isn’t there. >> >> Regards, >> >> Scott
