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On Sat, 06 Feb 1999 19:00:06 -0800, Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote:
>Peter Popov wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone encountered the following problem: when a selection is cut
>> into the clipboard and has not been pasted yet, using ctrl-y to delete
>> a line clears the clipboard contents.Please tell me if it's replicable
>> so that I can send an official bug report.
>>
>> Peter
>
>This is a common characteristic of many word processing programs.
>MS dos edit and many others use that key combination to cut a line
>of text to the buffer which will indeed replace whatever was in there.
>If you want to remove a line without putting it in the buffer place
>the cursor at the beginning of the line, hold the shift key then
>press the end button (or use the mouse to highlight the desired text),
>release the keys and hit delete. If you hold the shift key while the
>text is highlighted and hit the delete key it too will cut the text
>into the buffer.
>
>In conclusion this is not a bug it is a feature.
Sorry about the cross-post, please follow-up to povray.windows since
it seems this is not a bug. Thank you.
Peter
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