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On 07/23/2018 08:26 PM, Ian Douglas wrote:
> 
> 2. When selecting text to copy/cut, it reverts to black on white when selected. I'm used to Kate where selected text gets a different background so you can clearly see what you've selected. Is this me or the way the editor works (and IMHO this is sub-optimal for usability).

This is a problem with the version of GPS packaged with many Linux distros. It 
shows up, for example, in GPS 6.1.2016 (20160515) that comes with Ubuntu. I have 
downloaded and use GPS 2018 (20180528) from the Community Edition primarily to 
get around this problem.

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