Personally this sounds like the best option. Duh, why didn't I think of that? :-)
I do have another thought on this subject. The fundamental issue with the solutions is that they require you to pause and think about strategy, because each app has a different key to press or dialog to invoke. I'd love to see the use of a "meta-mode" (see Jeff Raskin's "Humane Interfaces"). For example holding the Shift key could tell X to not copy the selection. If so, the following sequence would work almost everywhere: 1) Select the URL you would like to jump to. It gets copied. 2) Press the Shift key while selecting the URL in the location bar (double-click or click/drag). Shift prevents it from replacing the clipboard contents. 3) Press the Delete key. Note that this is a single keystroke, as opposed to possibly 50 backspaces if you have to avoid using a selection. 3) Press the middle mouse button to paste the new URL. Just a thought, but it sounds like an improvement to me. In any case all of you have given me a some better tools to work with. Thanks! Steve Brian Nelson wrote: > Steve Cooper wrote: > > The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't > > figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g. > > If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd > > select the current URL and paste over it. > > > > In X once you select the text you want to replace it > > becomes the new copied text. I had some success using > > gclipper, because it allowed me to access a stack of copied > > text items. Is there a better way? > > Most browsers in linux have a shortcut to open a dialog box that prompts > for a location-- Ctrl-L in Mozilla, or Ctrl-O in Konqueror. I find > using these easier than pasting url's directly into the > address/location/whatever box in the main window. > > -Nelson > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]