On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:06:44 +0000 Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
I am *forever* getting text inserted at the wrong place because it's inserted at the mouse cursor rather than the text cursor. This happens particularly in web textareas but the problem is common to most/all GUI applications I think. (I just tried in OpenOffice and it's the same there).
Surely by default one would expect text to be inserted at the *text* cursor, not where you've moved the mouse cursor to which is often out of the way to avoid it obscuring what you're typing.
My editor (xvile) manages to do it right, it's a GUI application but text inserts where I'm typing.
Is there a setting somewhere to say "insert text at the text cursor"?
Chris,
Which GUI environment are you having the problem with, i.e. GNOME, KDE Xfce etc?
My experience using GNOME is that for most applications that have some kind of text entry widget, clicking in that text entry not only focuses that widget but sets the text insertion point to where the mouse click happens.
For many applications, for example editors, the major part of the main window is a form of text entry so here I would typically find that if I click in the application's main window to raise that window to the top it has the side effect of changing the text insertion point. The solution I have always used for this to to click on the title bar to raise an application instead.
HTH, Steve.