Hi Graham, On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
> > On 05/01/2011, at 3:04 AM, Peter Watkins wrote: > > This is what I'm really trying to achieve, "I'm writing an app that lets > the user select text in one program and paste it into another by > middle-clicking the mouse button." > > > > But why? > A couple reasons: 1) It's actually faster than Cmd-C, Cmd-V: You can do the entire copy-paste without using the keyboard. 2) Most UNIX users are used to copying and pasting this way (using the selection buffer). The copy-paste buffer still exists on UNIX, but most users don't use it. There is a perfectly reasonable standard way to cut and paste in a way that > works in virtually all apps that users are well used to. This is > non-standard, non-intuitive and difficult to implement 'solution' to a > problem that doesn't appear to exist. That's why it's hard to implement, > because it's not (on the face of it) very sensible. > This is correct for almost every Mac user. However there's a small segment of Mac users that come from a Linux/Sun/BSD background, and they really like the middle-click paste. They like it so much, in fact, that I've heard of some users switching to a Mac and then switching back to *NIX because the Mac doesn't have middle-click paste. > Also, not all mouses (mice?) have a middle button. The standard current > Apple Wireless Mouse for example, does not. > True, and it drives me up the wall. I got an Apple Magic Mouse and used it for awhile, but I switched back to my old Mighty Mouse because the Magic Mouse doesn't have a middle-click. I use the middle-click paste all the time when I log into work (my company's software only runs on *NIX) from my Mac. So, I still think a separate program that provides a selection buffer with middle-click paste is just the thing for *NIX users switching to a Mac. -Peter _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
