Find and Copy in Lister

[ttil]

It's looks like no such bug report. Or I just missed it. Sorry in this case.
Open in Lister any file. For example let's press F3 on text file with next text in it:

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this is a test.

Now press F7 (Find) and type test (trying to find text 'test').
Text range 'test' becomes selected (yeh, done! we found! ). Now press Ctrl+C to copy selected text to clipboard.
Message with text Nothing selected! appears.

[SanskritFritz]

Hmm it is indeed a separate highlight. It doesnt matter if cursor is on or off. Now that we have a cursor in Lister, it becomes a little annoying maybe

[petermad]

You have to select the text manually before you copy is.

The confusion arises becuse Lister unfortunately uses the same colors for highlighted found text and user selected text.

Notice that you can actually select some other text and still have your found text highlighted.

It would be nice if the color of those two items could be set separately.

[ttil]

You fully explained this curious "bug".
In some cases separated highlighting really useful. But...
Default behavior in this situation is that text selected, not highlighted. Check MS Word for example
So maybe mmm... discard this feature?
And one more. What behavior did we have in previous version? As now? It seems to me that in TC 6 we didn't have separated highlighting (it's because in early version I never seen such message).

[petermad]

What behavior did we have in previous version

Same thing in TC 6.54a !

[ttil]

Same thing in TC 6.54a !

So I'm too absent-minded
What do you think about:

Default behavior in this situation is that text selected, not highlighted. Check MS Word for example
So maybe mmm... discard this feature?

?

[Sosna]

let's just set another color, not discard

[icfu]

Ok, what about that?

1. Found items should be automatically marked so they can be directly copied to the clipboard. Manual selection is lost when searching anyway and would still be possible afterwards.
2. Highlight and selection colours ought to be different.

Icfu

[ttil]

Ok, what about that?

1. Found items should be automatically marked so they can be directly copied to the clipboard. Manual selection is lost when searching anyway and would still be possible afterwards.
2. Highlight and selection colours ought to be different.

Icfu

You've listed alternatives? In this case IMHO variant 1 more preferable.

[icfu]

Nope, I summed up this thread only.
1. is a must, 2. would be nice to have.

Icfu

[ghisler(Author)]

Indeed selection and found text are two completely separate things...

[ttil]

Nope, I summed up this thread only.

Ooops... Thanks!

Indeed selection and found text are two completely separate things...

Yeah, indeed so. But maybe... Maybe let's try to marry this features?