On Sunday 17 May 2015 19:49:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2015 18:16:16 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > > and if I begin typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm > > > typing becomes the contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it > > > doesn't. I have to click into the appropriate edit box, highlight > > > the contents and start typing or hit either home/end and then start > > > deleting before typing my new URL. If, for example, the existing > > > text happens to be a google search string, this can be quite a bit > > > of text to delete. > > > > > > So my question, I suppose, is multipart: > > > 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour? > > > > Yes. That's how text widgets always work on Unix. > > Unfortunately not :( > > Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm > not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently.
This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting in Chromium does not take over the system clipboard. When I click once it selects the whole address and I can delete it, before I middle click to insert whatever was in the clipboard. As has already been commented, this won't work with FF, which replaces the clipboard when I necessarily double click to select the content of the address bar. -- Regards, Mick
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