On Mon 24 Mar 2025 at 21:14:47 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:00:54 -0400 > Cindy Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That worked, but it's hinky sometimes on webpages that are already > > hard to copy a single block of text on. On those pages, I don't know > > what the misfire is, but selecting text insists on copying huge, > > unwanted chunks of a page, if not the whole page.
I think that's sometimes caused by copying across a frame boundary (or whatever they're called now), which can pick up the entire frame. But for whatever reason, I've found it sometimes helps to start the selection at the end of the text, and drag backwards. > Look into clipman. It won't solve the problem but will make selecting, > copying and pasting disjointed phrases faster. I often assemble disjoint text in the command line itself. Having bracketed-paste set is valuable here, as it prevents accidental multiline pastes from triggering execution of unfinished text. In more complex cases, I just assemble things in an emacs buffer. It saves my having to learn a new application like clipman. In both these cases, I rely for speed and reliability on pasting at the cursor position, rather than wherever the mouse happens to be. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make FF do this, which can make it tricky to append more text at the end of an already full address bar. The same goes for many other GUIs, like LO, which is just one reason why I don't use them for handling /text/. Cheers, David.
