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)

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