My one wish for 12.10 - improve copy/highlight

[Lance]

I'm personally finding left-triple-click to be quite inconsistent, that is sometimes it works, other times not so well. With Ubuntu and Gnome I've always found just left-double-click to work flawlessly at copying code in a "box".

But I was unaware of your other suggestion:

"Alternatively, I can also click somewhere above the box containing the
command, to the right of "Code:" and then drag down a short distance to
below the box enclosing the code, but above the "Things of particular
note are:" text.  The entire command is highlighted.  No great precision
of mouse pointing is needed for this, and there is definitely no need to
drag all the way to the right end of the long shell command. Drag down a
little, instead of right a lot."

That is quite efficient and easy as can be :^)

More later, I think I noticed that you added some info about highlighting text while using the live installer so I'll check that out a bit later.

Right now I'm trying to live up to a promise made regarding DE conversions that have become a bit more complex with the pae vs non-pae issue and the switch to lightdm.

Many thanks,

Lance

--- On Sun, 4/29/12, Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm> wrote:

From: Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: My one wish for 12.10 - improve copy/highlight
To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Sunday, April 29, 2012, 1:45 AM

Lance,

On 04/28/2012 04:44 AM, Lance wrote:

> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11882333&postcount=518
> 
> ...


> Anyway it's a very long command. Using Ubuntu I can just
> double-click and then select copy, but with Lubuntu I must position
> the cursor at the beginning of the command and be sure to "drag" all
> the way to the right before selecting "copy".


Maybe I am missing something, but in both Ubuntu and Lubuntu, for me,
triple-click Ctrl-C selects and then copies the command.  Triple-click,
click on Edit, click on Copy (in Firefox; in Chromium, that becomes
triple-click, click on the wrench, click on Copy) also works for me.

Alternatively, I can also click somewhere above the box containing the
command, to the right of "Code:" and then drag down a short distance to
below the box enclosing the code, but above the "Things of particular
note are:" text.  The entire command is highlighted.  No great precision
of mouse pointing is needed for this, and there is definitely no need to
drag all the way to the right end of the long shell command. Drag down a
little, instead of right a lot.

Are these two approaches both inadequate for your needs?  If so, can you
please explain why?

Jonathan

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