On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:19 pm, Ian Kelly wrote: > I've never been a fan of the primary selection style anyway. Copying > text is conceptually an action. Selecting text is how one indicates > the target of an action; conceptually it is not an action itself and > shouldn't cause an action to be performed. It leads to muddled > processes like "highlight this text, paste it there, highlight that > text, delete it, paste in the replacement text from before -- oops, I > accidentally pasted back in the text that I just deleted instead."
Everything you say is absolutely correct. And yet middle-click paste is so convenient when it works that I all but cry from frustration when I find an application that doesn't support it. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
