On 21 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote: > On 21 Sep 2014, Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote: >> On 20 Sep 2014 Tony Moore wrote: >>> On 20 Sep 2014, Richard Porter <r...@minijem.plus.com> wrote: >> >>>> One really annoying feature of NetSurf (RO front end) is that it >>>> won't let you paste text from an html file into the URL field. ... >> >>> It _isn't_ necessary, when using StongED to view the HTML source. >>> Press f8 to view the source, select the URL, press ctrl-shft-c to >>> copy it to the clipboard, click in the NS URL field (or Open URL >>> window), press ctrl-v to paste the URL. Perhaps I've misunderstood >>> the problem? >> >> The problem is that Copy saves the file type of the file you are >> copying from to the clipboard, and Paste presents that file type to >> the application you are pasting into. NetSurf doesn't accept plain >> text pasted from a file that isn't type Text (fff). This restriction >> seems to be as unnecessary as it is frustrating.
> As said above, here there is _no_ problem in pasting the URL from the > clipboard (RO 6.20, NS 2107, SE 4.69). Which application are you using > to view the NS HTML source? Edit by default. I don't normally use StrongEd. I had a look at the StrongHelp for StrongEd and eventually found ctrl-shift-C and ctrl-shift-V, but it doesn't give any explanation of what they do. I assume it means copy/paste forcing type to text. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ Skype: minijem2 mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
