Weirdness with c&p

         Initial disclaimer: I do little to no word-processing
myself; so I don't know enough of the terms of art to search the
archives; my wife does, and I'm the nearest thing we've got to tech
support. She is running 2.0.1-2, according to rpm -q, under Fedora
Core 1 on an old pentium 2.

         (Incidentally, I tried "yum update abiword" on my own
machine, also running FC1, and got a message telling me that
abiword-2.0.1-2 is the latest available from the repos. I also tried
downloading 2.2.7 from abisource.com, and rpm -Uvh got me a couple
of dependency failures. If chasing those down is the cure for what
follows, I'll try it -- in my trusty amorous porcupine suit : she's
working on writing a book, and I hesitate to get ahead of the
fedora-legacy folks if there's another way.)

         Copy and paste were working normally until recently.

         Now, when she tries to copy and paste (either within a
document, or between two), the pasting function puts in only part of
what was highlighted when she gave the copy command. I tried it too,
using right-click, using ^C and ^V, and using the pop-down Edit
menu. The unsatisfactory results were the same all three ways,
afaict.

         When, after an incomplete paste, you hit delete, you
sometimes get a different part of what should have been pasted
before, pasted then, along with deletion of what you were trying to
delete. That can happen repeatedly -- once per line, I think.

         You may or may not also get odd symbols, such as the
backward P which I think of as a paragraph sign, an uppercase I with
a line across it, or others that I'm at a loss to describe.

         I'm sorry to barge straight onto the list with this; I just
don't know enough about abiword to guess how else to pursue the
problem. TIA for your forbearance and any help!

-- 
Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist
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Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about.
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