* Zach White <zwhite-hates-softw...@darkstar.frop.org> [2008-07-05 17:15]: > A common behavior that this mechanism breaks is to copy a piece > of text (say, from a terminal window) and go over to a text > input box (say, the google search box in firefox) to paste it. > If I planned to use the "highlight and middle click strategy" I > now have a problem; how to get rid of the text that's already > in the search box.
You middleclick at the end of the text that's already there, then left-click-and-drag-upwards to select from that point to the start of the box, backspace. > X11's selection buffer breaks a whole lot stuff if you, you > know, actually use it and don't treat it like the vestigal > feature it is. It would be much nicer if ^C/^V/^X and the mouse gestures both used the same clipboard, and that clipboard had multiple slots, instead of this idiotic selection vs clipboard vs cut buffers (remember those?) business, yes. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
