[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60079] (Windows) Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V dysfunctional in Command Window

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #41, bug #60079 (project octave):

the fixed setting now applies by default to disable keyboard copy/paste along
with other shortcuts. Confirmed after some checking in old octave versions
(see
https://octave.discourse.group/t/octave-v7-default-disable-global-shortcuts-setting-for-keyboard-copy-paste-impact
) that whether deliberate or not this is a default UI behavior change going
back to at least octave 4 on Windows (it seems even when the setting worked
properly in v4 and 5, copy paste was maybe separately excluded?) Recommend
adding a note to the GUI section of news to at least document the change in
behavior, something like the following (although maybe it's too verbose):


The preference “Disable global shortcuts when Command Window has focus”
is
now consistently applied under all Operating Systems and is enabled by
default. This option disables keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-C/V for
Copy/Paste, Ctrl-N for creating a new editor document, Ctrl-Q for quitting
Octave, etc, to avoid interference with readline key strokes in the Command
Window. Ctrl-C/V were unaffected by this setting prior to version 7 of Octave
for Windows, but are now disabled by default. They can be enabled by
de-selecting the preference under the Edit/Preferences menu and Shortcuts
tab.


could someone verify whether this was in fact just as windows exception prior
to v6?

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