On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:02:20 -0500, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> opined: > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:53 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote: > > > > It is obviously up to the application developers to decide > > > which key bindings they want to support in which context. It is > > > up to the desktop > > > style guides to define what should work. The Gnome apps I'm > > > using behave > > > as expected, and support both clipboards. In some cases, > > > alternative keyboard shortcuts must be used (like SHIFT-^C), > > > e.g. in a terminal window running a shell - for obvious reasons. > > > > Well, there you go. With better standards that are recognized and > > honored, a developer won't be in the position of power and > > authority to 'decide' which keybindings they use. It would be a > > standard, with no deviations. > > What? What does a new standard mean to something you've already > been using for the last 30 years? For me, it would mean that > the new standard would be ignored. > > > > > "Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare"? Give me a break! > > And, as has been posted, it -is- a nightmare for some, including > > the likes of jdow, Tim, myself and others. > > Yet, none of them have bothered to post where the right-mouse > cut/paste menu choices fail to work as expected. > This issue is most troublesome because select is captured. Therefore, in some applications, you cannot select what you want to replace because the selected text-to-be replaced becomes the text-that-you-want-to-replace-it-with. -;) In some applications neither ctrl-c nor ctrl-v work at all. I would be very happy if ctrls c, x and v would work the way they are expected to work across the board. That the functionality seems to vary among applications (along with right-click, middle-click and shift-insert) makes life a whole lot more complicated than it should be. Sometimes, it is rather frustrating if you are moving text around a great deal between applications and sometimes the command line. -- Our DNSRBL - Eliminate Spam: http://www.TQMcube.com Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.php The Dirty Dozen Spammiest Ranges: http://tqmcube.com/dirty12.php
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