> I'm just trying to help your "obliterated ... by a wayward mouse action" problem. That's fine and I do appreciate the information, but from the perspective o

> I'm just trying to help your "obliterated ... by a wayward mouse action" problem. That's fine and I do appreciate the information, but from the perspective of the overall discussion I think the point stands that the X approach to this is completely broken from a user perspective. > It's worth remembering that when the standards document referenced in my previous [1] was originally written... a lot of those "major operating systems" didn't exist. That's completely understandable, but we've had over thirty years to adapt. This argument is the same one that keeps Emacs greybeards defending M-k and M-y despite the fact that there hasn't been a Meta key on a single keyboard I've used in my 30 years of computing. At some point you have to accept that the rest of the computing world has agreed upon a different standard than yours, and you either need to take steps to accommodate that or die. That's not to say you can't try out new things while still abiding by existing standards (for instance, with advanced features like pastebuffer history), but that's completely different from clinging on to inferior historical approaches when everyone else has moved on.