Pasting into Google Docs

[Hal Burgiss]

Anybody using Google Docs and have trouble pasting into it? Pasting
from something like Openoffice using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V seems to work fine.
Copy/paste from terminal, vim, gvim does not work at all in either
Chrome or Firefox, using middle mouse button, Ctrl-v, or shift-insert.
Current workaround is to copy from terminal, paste into Openoffice and
from there to Google docs, but that seems unusually stupid.

[Pete Vander Giessen]

Post by Hal Burgiss
Anybody using Google Docs and have trouble pasting into it? Pasting
from something like Openoffice using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V seems to work fine.
Copy/paste from terminal, vim, gvim does not work at all in either
Chrome or Firefox, using middle mouse button, Ctrl-v, or shift-insert.
Current workaround is to copy from terminal, paste into Openoffice and
from there to Google docs, but that seems unusually stupid.

Google docs used to complain to me about security features in my
browser preventing pasting when I tried to past via keyboard
shortcuts; pasting via the Firefox edit menu worked fine. With the
new version, it no longer complains about Ctrl-V to paste ... but
you're right, middle clicking to paste something doesn't work.

Ubuntu uses two clipboards: a recent implementation that triggers off
of Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C, and a legacy one that triggers off of highlight and
middle click. I'm assuming that Google Docs' JavaScript fanciness is
written to work harmoniously with the former, but not the latter.

This is a long way to say that the following works for copying and
pasting text from the terminal:
1) Highlight the text.
2) Click the "Edit" dropdown menu, then click "Copy" (this is
assuming that you haven't hidden the dropdown menus in your terminal)
3) Paste into Google docs via Ctrl-C, or the "Edit" dropdown menu.

I bet somebody could hack together a Greasemonkey script that resolves
the situation more satisfactorily; 'fraid that I don't have time to
poke at it further right now.

~ PeteVG

[Loïc Grenié]

Ubuntu uses two clipboards: ?a recent implementation that triggers off
of Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C, and a legacy one that triggers off of highlight and
middle click. ?I'm assuming that Google Docs' JavaScript fanciness is
written to work harmoniously with the former, but not the latter.

"recent" is slightly misleading. Unfortunately Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V, Shift-Insert
selection and middle-mouse button are very dependant of the application
you are using. Whoever decided to port Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to Linux desktop
should be hanged.

Lo?c, usually pacifist...

[Hal Burgiss]

Ubuntu uses two clipboards: ?a recent implementation that triggers off
of Ctrl-V, Ctrl-C, and a legacy one that triggers off of highlight and
middle click. ?I'm assuming that Google Docs' JavaScript fanciness is
written to work harmoniously with the former, but not the latter.

? ?"recent" is slightly misleading. Unfortunately Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V, Shift-Insert
?selection and middle-mouse button are very dependant of the application
?you are using. Whoever decided to port Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V to Linux desktop
?should be hanged.
? ? Lo?c, usually pacifist...

Thanks both of you, and I couldn't agree more! Not sure why there is a
need to take something is that is simple and worked great for years
and then muck it up with window-isms. And shame on google for screwing
up the same.

The terminal menu thing seems to work, but what a bunch of extra
effort, just for pasting.

Thanks, again.