I think I've been convinced that my suggestion for the
middle-click is not-useable. Let's forget about that ( as I'm
sure many of you have ). <br>
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Lakin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Conrad</b> <<a href="mailto:adconrad@0c3.net">adconrad@0c3.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Lakin Wecker wrote:<br>><br>> You misunderstand me. I meant this to be an option for those of us who use<br>> the PRIMARY clipboard by selecting text and then middle-clicking to place it<br>> where we want. I meant that middle clicking would replace the current URL
<br>> with the text from the PRIMARY clipboard.<br><br>Which, as was pointed out, makes it impossible to INSERT extra text, now<br>you can only replace. Say my URL bar has<br>"<a href="http://some.site.com/foo/bar.cgi">
http://some.site.com/foo/bar.cgi</a>" in it, and I want to add<br>"?sessid=[Really_long_ID_in_my_clipboard]" to the end of it, I now<br>can't, since clicking on the bar selected it all and overwrote my<br>primary clipboard.
<br><br>Yes, this could probably be worked around by shortcircuiting how the bar<br>works entirely, and barring it from ever copying its contents to the<br>primary paste buffer, but eww. Then you couldn't copy from it. No
<br>matter how you try to solve this, you lose some classic functionality<br>that some of us expect, just to have the Windows behaviour.<br><br>As has been pointed out, clicking the icon to the left of the URL<br>selects the whole thing. Is this really not good enough?
<br><br>... Adam<br><br>--<br>ubuntu-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
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