NEdit problem in Mandriva 2007/KDE

[Lester M Petrie]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 12:54 -0400, Carlie J. Coats wrote:
> I've just installed Mandriva 2007/x86_64 on a new IBM Intellistation A
> (dual Opteron 280's), and find I'm having a problem with commands like
> "Shift Left" and "Shift Right" in NEdit:  when I select a set of lines,
> and do the shift -- once! -- and the selection disappears, so that one
> has to re-select in order to shift more than one column (and that just
> one column at a time).
> 
> This not only happens with a local "nedit" but also with remote
> "nedit"s -- in this case,

There was a thread about similiar behavior back at the end of June. The
problem turned out to be related to "klipper", with the following fixing
the problem for me.

On 06/28/2006 07:15:29 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Ok solved. It had to be something related to both KDE and selections.

That klipper thing is doing harakiri with other application's
selections. Instead of dumping klipper into the bin, it is sufficient to
go into klipper's "General" configuration tab, and to disable the
"Prevent empty clipboard" setting.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129994

Volker

> 
> NEdit 5.5
> Sep 30, 2004
> 
>       Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
>       Built at: Oct  1 2004, 15:55:40
>     With Motif: 2.1.30 [@(#)Motif Version 2.1.30]
> Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
>         Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
>         Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23, Default)
>         Locale: en_US.UTF-8
> 
> and
> 
> NEdit 5.4
> Nov 20, 2003
> 
>       Built on: IRIX, MIPS, Unknown
>       Built at: Feb 14 2000, 17:37:18
>     With Motif: 1.2.4 [@(#)OSF/Motif Version 1.2.4]
> Running Motif: 1.2 [unknown]
>         Server: The X.Org Foundation 70101000
>         Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23, Default)
>         Locale: C
> 
> Any suggestions how to go back to the previous (selection stays
> active during shift operation) behavior?
> 
> [I had trouble with "Attempt to paste from unlocked copy buffer"
> messages on Mandriva's native "nedit" on this machine, and instead
> installed from the "nedit" home-page download, btw.]
> 
> Thanks!!  --
> 
> Carlie J. Coats, Jr.
> Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC.
>