Re: copy backtrace?

On Nov 28, 2007 8:43 PM, burlen <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Andrew Gaylard wrote:
>
> Please do not top-post.
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 4:18 PM, burlen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks but this does not work for me. I have even tried using the edit
> > menu, type "bt", highlight the text, edit->copy, switch to the other app,
> > paste. The copy action within ddd doesn't affect the clipboard for some
> > reason.  I noticed that I can copy and paste with in ddd it self, but that
> > doesn't help me get info out of ddd.
> >
> >
> > Andrew Gaylard wrote:
> >
> > On Nov 27, 2007 6:25 PM, burlen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi excuse me if this is a stupid question. I can't seem to figure out
> > > how to copy a backtrace from ddd to the clipboard. I have to do this
> > > often when reporting bugs or asking advise from other developers. Am I
> > > missing something obvious?
> >
> >
> > Type "bt". Mark the text with the mouse pointer. Paste it into your app.
> >
> > There's no need to Ctrl-C to "copy"; whenever text is selected, it's
> > copied.
> > This is standard for the Motif (Xm) and Athena (Xaw)  widget-sets.
> >
> >   This definitely does work.  I suspect that you have some app which
> is grabbing the selection.  I use DDD in gnome, KDE, and CDE.
> None of these environments has problems copying text and pasting
> it into vim running in an xterm.  I do it all the time.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> I am using KDE, typically I want to paste into an email client, however I
> just gave a copy-paste from ddd into vi a try and it didn't work. So, this
> is clearly either a ddd bug or some other issue, its not me being stupid and
> not doing it right. Thanks for the clarification.
>

OK. This is a surprise to me.

Which version of DDD are you using?
Is it linked with Motif or Lesstif? Which version?

Other list-members: do you see this problem too?

Andrew

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