From: "Gordon Messmer" <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Tim wrote:
I find the Linux way of doing it a right pain in the bum.
There's no "linux way".
Stop typing right there. You have it exactly.
X offers you the flexibility to use multiple
clipboards, but doesn't force you to use any one, particularly not one
that's a pain.
Now you went and spoiled your simple exposition with fantasy. That's
a crying shame. Ah well.
First
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Linux: I have some document with a word I'd like to replace. I *have*
to delete the word, find and highlight its new replacement, paste it
into the document.
Windows: Highlight the word to be replaced, and paste the new word over
the top of it.
Yeah, you can do that in X, too. Use the clipboard (ctrl+c or "copy"
menu item) instead of the primary selection. If you behave like you're
using Windows, you'll get the results that you want.
That works so little percentage of the time for me that it's worthless
advice. Worse it seems to be utterly unpredictable when it will and
will not work.
Second:
Linux: I've highlighted some details from an e-mail that I want to put
into the email configuration. I open up the configuration, and the
first editable data in it is already highlighted by the application.
It's now in the copy buffer, and I can't paste what *I* had previously
copied.
If that's true, it's a bug in the application. The primary selection is
only supposed to be replaced if the user selects something. If you open
a window and something is automatically highlighted, it does not also
magically replace the primary selection.
X-Windows is one huge bug. I prefer consoles for Linux.
{^_^}
