Re: paste in GtkTextBuffer

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

vishnu pobox com writes:
> It seems like GtkTextBuffer is too inflexible, but maybe i'm missing
> something.  Hear my use case:
> 
> i'm using TextTags to delinate the bounds of external data.  In other
> words, the styles aren't just for aethetic appearance but actually
> mean something.
> 
> When i select some text and press the middle button, then the text
> is pasted, with the original TextTags.  This breaks the syncronization
> between the TextTag spans and my external data.
> 
> Examining the GtkTextBuffer source code, i see that paste_from_buffer
> calls gtk_text_buffer_real_insert_range which appears impossible
> to customize for my purposes.
> 
> If i could disable the paste function from copying tags then i
> would be happy.  Any other suggestions?
> 
> Shall i file a bugzilla report?

Sure, I don't promise I know how to fix this by 2.0, but at least
we'll have an open issue.

Havoc