John Levon wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:13:20PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> 
>> Geez, you can be excessively pedantic!
>> Who has problems with "Find and Replace"?
> 
> Nobody because it's much more common and the user already has in mind
> what they want to find. "Select and Paste" is a lot less clear
> especially when you bear in mind that the user's conception of
> "selection" is much more likely to be of selecting text in the workarea.

I think that you are assuming that your users are stupid. This also leasds 
to bad GUI design, or so I have read.

Anyway, ultimately, who cares?

Angus (off for a run).

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