[gnome-text-editor] view: update primary clipboard with deleted line



commit cfb4c8d46ff45f2ed486717e8216f9e951989fa4
Author: Christian Hergert <chergert redhat com>
Date:   Fri Nov 12 12:31:59 2021 -0800

    view: update primary clipboard with deleted line
    
    When deleting a line with Ctrl+D it is nice to update the primary selection
    clipboard with the contents of the deleted line so that the user may
    middle-mouse-click to paste the line elsewhere.
    
    Related #215

 src/editor-source-view.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
---
diff --git a/src/editor-source-view.c b/src/editor-source-view.c
index 7a0556f..0880ed8 100644
--- a/src/editor-source-view.c
+++ b/src/editor-source-view.c
@@ -413,6 +413,11 @@ editor_source_view_action_delete_line (GtkWidget  *widget,
          g_unichar_isspace (gtk_text_iter_get_char (&begin)))
     gtk_text_iter_forward_char (&begin);
   gtk_text_buffer_select_range (buffer, &begin, &begin);
+
+  /* it's nice to place the text into the primary selection so that
+   * the user can paste it in other places.
+   */
+  gdk_clipboard_set_text (gtk_widget_get_primary_clipboard (widget), text);
 }
 
 static void


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