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I have a problem using Textexpander. It always pastes the current clipboard instead of the snippet. This seems to be a Java related problem, but it is solvable. PHPStorm had the sam problem, look here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-69480 Inside the discussion is also a message from the Textexpander team, which might bring you on the right way: "I presume PyCharm is a Java app. If so, then it's incorrectly assuming the clipboard can be copied at the time of app activation and need not be updated at the time of paste. This is not a correct assumption, and you should let LivePerson know that. There are Java apps such as JEdit and NeoOffice which handle the clipboard properly. TextExpander works well with such apps." I would love to see this resolved, as TextExpander is my main productivity tool and it'd be great if I could use it inside netbeans. regards
I wrote a mail to Textexpander Support, as well, this this is what I got as answer: "Hi Lars, I'm afraid the issue stems from how Netbeans (and a great many other Java apps) handles the clipboard. It assumes that the content of the clipboard cannot change between the time the app is activated and the time it is deactivated (i.e. that you switch to another application). I'm not sure of the gory details, but I know that jEdit does not make this faulty assumption and works perfectly well with TextExpander. If you have a means to report bugs to the Netbeans developers, I'd urge you to do so. Such reports from paying customers tend to be taken much more seriously than from fellow developers, perhaps because you're the ones who pay the mortgage of the app developers, so to speak." Of course, the money I didn't pay for free software is no motivation here... ;-)
Moving to window system.
Please describe what the problem actually is and reopen, thanks.
Textexpander (http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/index.html) uses the clipboard to paste snippets from outside the application into the editor. As far as I understand, it caches the value of original clipboard temporarily, replaces the content with the snippet to paste, pastes it and then restores the original content of the clipboard. In netbeans this doesn't work, because the "paste"-action in netbeans doesn't check, if the content of the clipboard has been changed externally. Instead netbeans just pastes the content of the clipboard that has been generated by netbeans itself.
Reassigning to editor team for evaluation.
I just tested it with Typinator (http://www.ergonis.com/products/typinator/). Same problem... :-/
*** Bug 227586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
same Problem with "Type It for me" http://www.ettoresoftware.com/products/typeit4me/
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss