{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hexchat/hexchat/issues/541","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hexchat/hexchat/issues/541/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hexchat/hexchat/issues/541/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hexchat/hexchat/issues/541/events","html_url":"https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/541","id":13168829,"number":541,"title":"Selection copy behavior wrong/confusing","user":{"login":"haarp","id":781030,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/781030?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp","html_url":"https://github.com/haarp","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/haarp/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":25,"created_at":"2013-04-14T07:10:12Z","updated_at":"2015-01-17T02:29:33Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Hey. I realize that Xchat didn't do this very well either, but Hexchat seems to have broken it further.\r\n\r\nI cannot select text and ctrl+c, it's shift+ctrl+c now. Why was this changed? It's annoying because every other application on people's systems uses plain ctrl+c (except for shells, but we know the reason for that).\r\nThe right-click menu also requires the user to enter a submenu to reach \"copy selection\", while it would be much better off as its own entry in the root right-click menu, imho (along with a few other entries like search).\r\n\r\nSelecting text on Linux also does not put the text in the selection buffer anymore by default, which is also sorely missed by me.\r\nThere is of course the \"Automatically copy selected text\" option. But in addition to copying into the selection buffer (the select/middle click thing on Linux) like expected, it also copies into the paste buffer (ctrl+c, ctrl+v), which is really quite confusing and annoying, because it will replace your paste whenever you select anything.\r\n\r\nHexchat is a great client, and I appreciate your work on it. But these are usability issues which really shouldn't exist.\r\n\r\n<bountysource-plugin>\r\n\r\n---\r\nWant to back this issue? **[Place a bounty on it!](https://www.bountysource.com/issues/751187-selection-copy-behavior-wrong-confusing?utm_campaign=plugin&utm_content=tracker%2F94103&utm_medium=issues&utm_source=github)** We accept bounties via [Bountysource](https://www.bountysource.com/?utm_campaign=plugin&utm_content=tracker%2F94103&utm_medium=issues&utm_source=github).\r\n</bountysource-plugin>"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hexchat/hexchat/issues/comments/70350887","html_url":"https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/541#issuecomment-70350887","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/hexchat/hexchat/issues/541","id":70350887,"user":{"login":"Arnavion","id":1096010,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1096010?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion","html_url":"https://github.com/Arnavion","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Arnavion/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-01-17T02:29:33Z","updated_at":"2015-01-17T02:29:33Z","body":"Chat clients aren't word processors. The two views *are* separate. Many (all?) chat applications allow selecting text in the two views independently. Your analogy is invalid.\r\n\r\nHexChat is different only in that the input box retains keyboard focus even if you click on the channel view. As a result, Ctrl-C always applies to the selection in the input box, and thus we have a separate shortcut Ctrl-Shift-C that always applies to the selection in the channel view."}}