Could this be an issue with 2-button mouses? I have real 3-button
mouses on all of my Linux machines. Are you using Netscape? This is
what I do to copy URLs in e-mails into Netscape.
Select the URL from the e-mail with the left button.
Click the title bar of the Netscape window, or click the Netscape window
in the task bar of whatever desktop you're using.
Then do Alt-O in the Netscape window.
Left-click in the location field.
Middle click (or "snakebite") in the location field to dump in the URL.
Good luck,
Hidong
Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> Something that has bugged me from day oneabout the X mouse interface
> that I hope (sort of) that some one can say "hey dummy, just do ... and
> it will work.
>
> I love the select by highlighting and middle button paste, or in my case
> the old two button emulation "snakebite" of both buttons at the same
> time to paste. This becomes a problem is when I want to copy some text
> from one document and replace text elsewhere. When I do this I end up
> loosing the text in the buffer ( first selection) due to the new
> selection of the text I want to replace.
>
> For instance when I want to check out a url that someon has posted in an
> email, I highlight the text in the mail, and go to my web browser
> location bar and have to click to gain focus on the location field, use
> the delete and backspace key to delete all the text in the field and
> then paste the copied text from the mail into the now empty field. Is
> there a way to copy the text of the url, select the text to be replaced
> and then replace it?
>
> This would be the equivilent to the MS Windows select, rightmouse click,
> select copy, select txt to be replaced, rightmouse click, select paste
> operation.
>
> Just one of those things that occasionally irritates me. I feel stupid
> for using linux daily for over two years and almost exclusively as my
> day to day machine, and not knowing how to accomplish this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bret
>
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