It’s 100% about copying text from any NetBeans editor to somewhere outside NetBeans? Or also the reverse? Consistently or sporadically?
Gj On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 21:57, Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
