On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:49:21PM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 1 March 2010 13:34, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
My problem is that applications are *designed* to paste text at the *mouse cursor* position and I want to paste text at the *text cursor* position. I don't think you have quite understood what my original rant was about.
I noticed middle click pasting moved the text cursor before dropping the text in years ago, so I use the keyboard instead.
Can you paste mouse selected text with the keyboard without having to CTRL/C to copy the text?
I have 'select with button 1, paste with button 3' ingrained in my mind. Having to do 'select with button 1, move hand back to keyboard, hit CTRL/C to copy text, move hand back to mouse to select insertion point, move hand back to keyboard, hit CTRL/V to paste' very long-winded in comparison.
... and middle click doesn't have to move the cursor, it's just a (crap) design decision by someone, somewhere. It doesn't happen in xvile for example.
I think MS Windows defaults have spoilt things.