I am running the Hi-dpi version of RC9. Twice I have had a problem where the “paste” and “paste and match style” shortcuts are greyed out in the “Edit” menu:
When this happens, Ctrl-V continues to work, but Ctrl-Shift-V stops working (nothing happens when I press these keys, which is why I noticed the problem).
The first time this happened, I was trying to paste text from a website (open in Firefox), today it happened with a PDF file (open in Adobe Acrobat Pro). I was pasting into different documents on each occasion, but the same Scrivener project. Each time, I found that closing and reopening Scrivener solved the problem, but that is fairly time-consuming.
If it happens again, I will report any pattern I can see (but haven’t spotted one yet).
If it happens again can you also see if you can right-click in the Scrivener document and access the paste commands. And then also copy some text from a different source and see if you can paste that, before you close/open the project.
Someone else pointed out an issue where closing an editor split via the toggle button in the header is not properly restoring focus to the editor, so a lot of commands that should be available in the menu are not, just as you’re experiencing. (Ctrl+V is a deeper system command, so that is sort of overriding the problem.) If you encounter this again, something to watch for then is what you’ve just previously done in Scrivener that may have shifted focus in the background, so that the insertion point is still blinking in the editor and it seems ready for your action, but behind the scenes the wiring got a little crossed.
The problem finally reoccurred and this comment was correct: it is splitting the main editor window that causes the problem, but only after using the “toggle split” icon in the top right hand corner of the editor window to remove the split (return to a single window). Once you do that, the “paste-and-match style” option is greyed out on the both the main menu and the right-click contextual menu, and the shortcut doesn’t work. But if you split the window again, the command works.
I also found that using that binder to change the document displayed fixed it, but you have to do this twice to restore focus.
Happy to supply more details if needed, but this is definitely a bug.
Thanks for the follow-up. The focus bug following closing the split has already been filed and is being fixed, so I expect it will be resolved in the next beta release. If you’re still getting the problem then, we’d appreciate more details.
