[thelist] Dreamweaver 4 - Can't Edit in Code View

Mon Jan 22 19:51:31 CST 2001

I love you Macromedia guys! (no sarcasm intended in that sentence!)

> Key qualifier: can never-ever copy/paste anything in any 
> document? 

Yep, as far as I can tell, whenever I'm in the HTML Inspector, I can't copy and paste reliably within that window.  If I have something already in the clipboard, it will paste into the document, but it pastes as if I was pasting *into the visual editor*, not the code inspector.  As an example, if I have the text ASDF ASDF in my clipboard and I enter the code inspector (via F10) and try to paste it above the <head> tag, it pastes it into the body area.

Now, even weirder, if I minimize the visual editing window, but keep the code inspector open, I can paste anywhere I want.  Its as if it still thinks I'm in the visual editor even though the code inspector is definitely the one in focus.

> Just on a pure hunch I'd wonder whether you were in a particular document
> which was a template instance...

Nope, happens every time.  Just tried with a bare bones HTML file.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.  This definitely didn't happen in DW3, and it's killing my productivity.

Thanks much (and good luck with the Merger with Allaire!).

Mark

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> Subject: Re: [thelist] Dreamweaver 4 - Can't Edit in Code View
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> At 1:58 PM 1/20/1, Mark Gregor wrote:
> > Whenever I try to edit in code view (via F10), I can't seem to copy
> > or cut'n paste anything.
> 
> F10 seems to indicate you're in the HTML Inspector, rather than 
> DW4's split
> views.
> 
> Key qualifier: can never-ever copy/paste anything in any 
> document? (If it's
> only one document, then that points to a different class of mystery causes
> than if the problem always appears.)
> 
> For the answerable "What changed in DW4's clipboard ops?" then look at the
> split view and the new "Paste as HTML" command... because there are now
> more pasting options, and because so many never saw the old 
> "Paste as Text"
> item in the Edit menu, DW4 tries harder now to sense which type of way
> you'd like to paste, depending on the content on the clipboard and the
> window which has focus. If you'd like an unusual case, though, 
> then the new
> "Paste as HTML" command in the Edit menu can help. (This wouldn't affect
> inability to copy, though.)
> 
> 
> Just on a pure hunch I'd wonder whether you were in a particular document
> which was a template instance... people usually describe the symptom
> differently then, but that's one fairly frequent mystery cause that's
> possible behind a symptom presentation like the above.
> 
> jd
> 
> 
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