On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > > > If the selection is left selected and you don't paste the copy but > > instead press any key the selection will be replaced by that key. > > Maybe this is what Ricardo wanted but it might be a big surprise for > > everyone else -- especially if you'd scrolled somewhere else in your > > document to find the place you wanted to paste the copied text. > > Well, despite all, it *is* standard behaviour to leave the selection on, > at least in some places. I have just tested notepad, Word, Mozilla (both > e-mail and HTML editor), JBuilder (a Java application), and I could go on.
SuperDOS (er... I mean Windows) apps the lot of them. We should file bug reports to Microsoft to fix their buggy implementation ;-) > I think Emacs might be alone in this regard. No, LyX does it too! > I propose that we have an option for this. Would you like fries with that? Allan. (ARRae)
