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Re: Who cares whether it is useful
by Me on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @06:13

Exactly!

At work, I am forced to use NT. As such, to make life easier and more bearable, I installed Cygwin with XFree86. I can do all my Windoze-work from Xterms (thank God--no stupid 'right-click-select-Mark-right-click-select-Paste' anymore), running under WindowMaker (!). The only piece I needed was Konqueror, which these nice people have provided (nuts to Mozilla--Konqueror is better in so many ways).

This is great stuff!

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Re: Who cares whether it is useful
by . on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @18:20

CTRL+C, CTRL+V. Having to keep text selected to paste is k-lame.

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Re: Who cares whether it is useful
by Carbon on Sunday 25/Nov/2001, @19:43

The X selection buffer tracks the last thing you selected. This doesn't mean you have to keep the text selected, or even keep the window with the selected text open before you paste the buffer using the MMB, but simply that you shouldn't select any more text until you do so. In fact, using klipper, you can even select some text, go to another window, select some other text, use klipper to move the original selection back into the buffer, and MMB to paste over text.

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Re: Who cares whether it is useful
by Guus on Monday 26/Nov/2001, @13:22

Yeah, but it is annoying that you cannot replace some text while pasting.

I started real life with a macintosh and I still miss the consistency of that interface. KDE should look more at the mac instead of windoze because there's nothing left to learn in Redmond.

Some simple things: double clicking on a word and then dragging should select a range of whole words instead of a character range. Triple clicking should select a whole line or paragraph.

A real nice feature in MPW (a UNIX shell rip-off for the mac) had a programmers editor that allowed you to double click a bracket to select everything within those brackets. When you would drag after that double click, the editor would continously find the innermost brackets around the cursor and select that text (great for checking the nesting!). When hitting the numerical enter in the editor, the current selection would be executed by the shell and the result written into the editor AFTER the selection; can be very handy...

Anyway, being windoze-like is really aiming too low! Let's incorporate some of the better features of other systems (the services menu of the NeXT for example?)

Cheers , Guus

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Re: Who cares whether it is useful
by David on Monday 18/Mar/2002, @23:13

One of my dreams for linux is a shell with the gui of the MPW shell. That is, mac/Metrowerks style cut/copy/paste, and command invocation by selection/enter. Anybody know about such a thing? Want to work on one?

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