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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