Re: [orca-list] Is Cut/Paste Broken in Terminal?

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Thanks for the reminder and detailed explanation.  I had forgotten the
particulars on this but the loss of cut/paste in a gnome terminal is a
biggy in my book!  I'm not sure what would happen if you just used a
regular click by pressing unmodified slash key on both ends of the
selection.  I just know I was told at the beginning of my gnome
experience that one used a shift-/ to end the selection.  I don't know
if that is a gnome-terminal or gnome thing or what.

Maybe an Orca hotkey could be set up for "End of selection" and map it
by default to shift-numpad-/.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 02:22:04AM -0400, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi Steve.
> 
> > Clearly this tells me that either mouse clicks in flat review are
> > broken or something has gone wrong with gnome-terminal.
> 
> Awhile back we changed Orca to consider all modifiers and their states
> when determining if a given set of keystrokes was a match for an Orca
> command or not. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494196.
> 
> By insisting that each keybinding is a specific set of keys -- and only
> those keys -- we avoid accidentally taking over commands we didn't mean
> to as well as having ambiguous bindings which might result from the
> addition of new commands/bindings down the road.
> 
> However, the apparent side effect of this change is that before any ol'
> use of NumPad slash was seen as a left-click. The fact that you were
> holding down Shift was irrelevant to us. So we clicked, Shift did what
> it would do anyway, and you selected text via mouse click. Now, Shift
> +NumPad slash is seen as a different command from NumPad slash so we
> don't click. Because Shift+NumPad slash isn't an Orca command, we don't
> do anything else with it either.
> 
> I'm not sure what the right answer is here. Perhaps we should make an
> exception for clicking....
> 
> Thanks for the report.  Take care.
> --Joanie
> 

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