[IPython-dev] Single click copy+paste in IPython notebook?

Matthias Bussonnier bussonniermatthias at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 10:38:35 EDT 2015


> On Jun 27, 2015, at 11:13, Anton Suchaneck <a.suchaneck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not at scipy, but I try to keep up with videos. I'll be excited to watch the video.
> I'd also appreciate any pointers to documentation I might need for this particular task and the IPython hooks (classes, methods, ...) I need to accomplish a copy/paste extension.

Docs, especially on JS side are bad. Moving to typescript would help. 

Click and focus things on browser are so annoying that I can’t tell you the best way to go for it. 
I believe only mostly Linux user will be interested as it is uncommon to have middle click past on anything
but linux/unix. 
-- 
MD



> Or what do you think: Is it more likely or easier to introduce such a copy/paste functionality rather as a browser plugin or even globally in the OS (Windows or Linux)?
> 
> Thanks Matthias!
> 
> 2015-06-26 20:20 GMT+02:00 Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias at gmail.com <mailto:bussonniermatthias at gmail.com>>:
> Are you at scipy? Otherwise I think our talk on extensions Will be recorded, and we'll put the material online.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 26 juin 2015, at 18:58, Anton Suchaneck <a.suchaneck at gmail.com <mailto:a.suchaneck at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> So it would be possible?
>> I currently only know Python and have no idea about internals of the notebook, Javascript or so.
>> Could you give me a pointer what I need to learn and where I need to hook in to make this feature?
>> 
>> 2015-06-26 18:55 GMT+02:00 Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com <mailto:takowl at gmail.com>>:
>> You could have a go at doing that in an extension. It's probably too fragile to include in the notebook by default, given all the other things that middle click can mean.
>> 
>> Thomas
>> 
>> On 26 June 2015 at 09:26, Anton Suchaneck <a.suchaneck at gmail.com <mailto:a.suchaneck at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I'd like to use single click copy+paste in the IPython notebook - as it is found in some advanced editors.
>> Single click means:
>> * My cursor is at the destination position
>> * I press the middle mouse and start selecting text at some other place. Meanwhile the actual cursor isn't moving
>> * as soon as I release the middle mouse now, the selected text is inserted at the position where my curser was at the beginning.
>> I used only a single mouse click and no keyboard for this.
>> 
>> Is it possible to include this into the IPython notebook?
>> Where would that be (extension, codemirror, browser, OS, ...)?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Anton
>> 
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