I can confirm this.
It seems that by feature, Paste or CTRL-V will replace the text in the search
box if nothing is selected. If any part of the text is selected, the selected
text remains while other text are trimmed out, and nothing will be pasted.
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Pasting over selected text in the search
Bug is known upstream:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367972
but supposedly have already been fixed. Suggest OP to try again with a fresh
session (close any running Gjiten, run again, open Kanjidic, mark the 'Search
By Radical' checkbox, click on 'Show Radical List'). Unfortunat