Undo a search - howto

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

although I'm using NEdit for years now, I still wonder if there is
a method to return to the location before a search has been issued.
I known about setting a 'Mark' and going back to this, but is there
a shorter method like 'Undoing a Search'?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.

[Tony Balinski]

Post by Helmut Jarausch
Hi,
although I'm using NEdit for years now, I still wonder if there is
a method to return to the location before a search has been issued.
I known about setting a 'Mark' and going back to this, but is there
a shorter method like 'Undoing a Search'?
Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.

Only for incremental search, I think. If you start typing (or just paste into)
the incremental search text area, the cursor moves forward to match the search
string. You can delete the search string from the end and you will be brought
back to your start position once the last character is gone. This only works
if you don't move forward for a next occurrence, though.

A very easy way of marking your start point is to make a trivial modification
(on modifiable windows at least), eg overwriting a character with itself. You
then search as much as you like and then use Undo (Ctrl+Z typically) to return
to your start point. I do this very often.

Otherwise, this is an opportunity for you to hone your C skills and implement
exactly what you want :-)

Tony

[Daliyot, Maoz]

Hi,
For some reason, I cannot do the simple "paste" operation - neither thru ^v nor thru right-click paste - for quite a while.
It did worked before, but I don't know what has changed.
Anyone have idea?
Thanks.

Maoz

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[Eric Bouyoux]

Hi,

I have sometimes the same problem under Centos/KDE. Usually, the
middle-click button still works.
I don't know the reason why it stops after sometime, but the only way I
found to make it work again is to close all my nedit windows and re-open
files one by one.

Regards.

Eric Bouyoux.

Post by Daliyot, Maoz
Hi,
For some reason, I cannot do the simple "paste" operation - neither thru ^v nor thru right-click paste - for quite a while.
It did worked before, but I don't know what has changed.
Anyone have idea?
Thanks.
Maoz
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[Greg Frinchaboy]

I too have a problem with 64 bit CentOS 5.4. I lost my meta keys and mouse
when editing files on a remote system via ssh. A reboot of the local system
did not fix the problem. I can login to the remote system from other
systems and all is OK.

I have yet to resolve the issue. I suspect a configuration file on the
local system has been corrupted. However, nedits on the local system do not
exhibit the problem.

So, there is no problem logged in as myself (NFS), or as a local user on the
target system. The problem occurs when "ssh -X remote_box -l me", but only
from this one target system.

Very strange,
Greg Frinchaboy

Post by Eric Bouyoux
Hi,
I have sometimes the same problem under Centos/KDE. Usually, the
middle-click button still works.
I don't know the reason why it stops after sometime, but the only way I
found to make it work again is to close all my nedit windows and re-open
files one by one.
Regards.
Eric Bouyoux.

Post by Daliyot, Maoz
Hi,
For some reason, I cannot do the simple "paste" operation - neither thru ^v
nor thru right-click paste - for quite a while.
It did worked before, but I don't know what has changed.
Anyone have idea?
Thanks.
Maoz
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[Edward A. Berry]

I have the same problem. I remember it being discussed quite a bit a few years ago,
not recently so maybe there is a fix. In addition to clipboard paste not working
(while middle-click X paste works), there is a problem of garbage in the window
when old text is not cleared before new text is written (which can be cleared by
^A select all to force a redraw) and sometimes the ^F find dialog box won't accept
any input. It's not really a problem of nedit but incompatibility between nedit and
the X-server, because logging into theproblematice nachine (FC8) from a working
machine (FC6 or redhat 7.3) and running nedit works perfectly, wheras going the
other way has these problems. So, it's the machine running the X-server which
determines whether or not the problems ocurr, not the version of nedit.
The discussion focused on motif, and I think people were installing openmotif
instead of lesstif, but in fact I have exactly the same lesstif on the FC6
(working) and FC8 (not working) systems.
on FC8:
NEdit 5.5
Sep 30, 2004

Built on: Linux, 386, GNU C
Built at: Nov 10 2007, 07:57:53
With Motif: 2.1.0 [@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.95.0] (UNTESTED)
Running Motif: 2.1 [unknown]
Server: The X.Org Foundation 10300000
Visual: 24-bit TrueColor (ID 0x23, Default)
Locale: en_US

Post by Eric Bouyoux
Hi,
I have sometimes the same problem under Centos/KDE. Usually, the
middle-click button still works.
I don't know the reason why it stops after sometime, but the only way I
found to make it work again is to close all my nedit windows and re-open
files one by one.
Regards.
Eric Bouyoux.

Post by Daliyot, Maoz
Hi,
For some reason, I cannot do the simple "paste" operation - neither thru ^v nor thru right-click paste - for quite a while.
It did worked before, but I don't know what has changed.
Anyone have idea?
Thanks.
Maoz
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[Wayne.Lydecker-o70QjBUuf8rQT0dZR+]

[Wayne.Lydecker-o70QjBUuf8rQT0dZR+]

Sorry about the previous response, our servers eviscerate anything with
HTML.

Do you all use KDE? I have had nothing but trouble with Klipper. If
so, try
disabling Klipper, or try another WM to see if that is your problem.

-- Wayne.

[Aaron W. Hsu]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:44:41 -0400, Eric Bouyoux

KDE

Klipper is often a cause of problems.

Aaron W. Hsu

[Tony Balinski]

Post by Aaron W. Hsu
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:44:41 -0400, Eric Bouyoux

KDE

Klipper is often a cause of problems.

You should be able to configure klipper not to convert primary
selections to the clipboard nor to do any other strange thing to them
- that should stop it interfering with NEdit's selections.

Tony

[Aaron W. Hsu]

Post by Tony Balinski
You should be able to configure klipper not to convert primary
selections to the clipboard nor to do any other strange thing to them
- that should stop it interfering with NEdit's selections.

I stopped using KDE around the 4.3 versions, but I do know that whatever I
tried would not make Klipper work, but magically, when I stopped using
Klipper, NEdit was working fine. It would have been nice to have something
to try that managed to get Klipper to work with NEdit. Can anyone report
on whether the above works?

Aaron W. Hsu

[Paul Gevers]

Post by Aaron W. Hsu

Post by Tony Balinski
You should be able to configure klipper not to convert primary
selections to the clipboard nor to do any other strange thing to them
- that should stop it interfering with NEdit's selections.

I stopped using KDE around the 4.3 versions, but I do know that whatever I
tried would not make Klipper work, but magically, when I stopped using
Klipper, NEdit was working fine. It would have been nice to have something
to try that managed to get Klipper to work with NEdit. Can anyone report
on whether the above works?

The solution that I found some time ago (I am not using nedit much, so
don't know how it works now):

Better still: configure klipper to ignore actions of nedit.

In klipper -> Configure -> Actions -> Advanced -> Disabled Actions for
Windows of Type WM_CLASS : nedit

Paul

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