On 28Mar2015 20:57, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>
wrote:
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:19 pm, Ian Kelly wrote:
I've never been a fan of the primary selection style anyway. Copying
text is conceptually an action. Selecting text is how one indicates
the target of an action; conceptually it is not an action itself and
shouldn't cause an action to be performed. It leads to muddled
processes like "highlight this text, paste it there, highlight that
text, delete it, paste in the replacement text from before -- oops, I
accidentally pasted back in the text that I just deleted instead."
Everything you say is absolutely correct. And yet middle-click paste is so
convenient when it works that I all but cry from frustration when I find an
application that doesn't support it.
In xterm and I think several other X11 terminals, Shift-Insert pastes. I found
that _way_ more convenient than middle click. The mouse is not your friend.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
Unix is user-friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are.
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