On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:01:13PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 Jan, Christopher Booth wrote: > > Highlight it with the mouse, and then in your other app > > press the two mouse buttons together at the same time. (if emulate > > 3buttons is enabled) or if you have a three button mouse, press the > > middle button to paste. > > No, when I asked for a way to do this in X via the *keyboard*, that > really was what I meant. If you're typing on the keyboard, having to > lift one hand off to paste is much slower than doing it with a > keystroke.
Shift-Insert acts like the middle mouse button by default in X, but it is rarely used since using the mouse is so much easier (IMHO). Pete > Hence my question. I'm well aware of how you have to do it in X; I was > just asking if there were other possibilities too. I gather that the > answer is "No, X can't do that." KDE and Gnome applications can, but > vanilla X can't, or you can't cut and paste between every X application > with keystrokes. For some, you can't even do it with the mouse! > > (Heh. I remember that FrameMaker under X won't even let you paste into > the file open text field by *any* means. StarOffice 5.2 and 6.0 beta > suffer the same deficiency.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
