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> Just double click in the field to have all the text selected, then paste. This won't work when using the primary selection (ie. middle-click paste) in X. Sel
by rlpb 16y ago
> Just double click in the field to have all the text selected, then paste.
This won't work when using the primary selection (ie. middle-click paste) in X. Selecting the text wipes out the previous selection.
- petercooper 16y agoI might be missing your point, but I repeated the steps I mentioned in Ubuntu and have success. No middle click pasting though, just the OS X/Windows/everyone else standard of either context menu pasting or Ctrl+V. I recorded it too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZl3gTzqyKA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZl3gTzqyKA What am I missing?
- megablast 16y agoFor unix systems with X, you copy the text by selecting it. So when you want to paste a URL, selecting the old URL to delete it will overwrite the copied URL. You would need to delete it first, and then copy the URL you are after.
- petercooper 16y agoAgain, though, I think I'm missing something. Isn't the windowing system Ubuntu uses X? In my video demo I "select" the contents of the text box, yet the existing contents of the clipboard remains. Or is this something Ubuntu does to keep us "other platform" migrators happy?
- tedunangst 16y agoThere is another clipboard that X users like using and don't like having obliterated whenever a program requires text selection. The ctrl-C/V clipboard and the highlight/middle-click clipboards are different. http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html
- csarva 16y agoThere are actually two different buffers in X and they are each used a bit differently. See here for an explanation: http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html