On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:16:51 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Well, I probably would have done so as well, or used awk if it was a
>> mass change.
> 
> Oddly enough, once I griped about it here, for some reason the program
> completely stopped annoying me. It suddenly seems to work wonderfully
> intuitively.  Either I stopped doing what was bothering me, or my brain
> rewired to understand the underlying behavior of the program correctly.
> :-)

LOL, that's funny. :-)

>> Shift+Del and Shift+Ins, not CTRL-C and CTRL-V.
> 
> That's another annoyance. I have different keyboards, and only one of
> the INS keys works for insertion. Or it's a numlock problem or
> something.

Probably, yes - but you can't blame OO for that. ;-)

>> I'm pretty sure that it's that there's more than one.  I've noticed a
>> few instances where exiting an application clears the buffer.  Like
>> Firefox, for instance.  That drives me a little crazy.
> 
> Yeah. X's cut/paste buffer management is really pretty screwy. As I
> understand it, as long as the application is open that put the "clip" in
> the clip buffer, other apps ask that app directly for the data, so it
> doesn't get buffered twice. When the app exits, it's supposed to put it
> onto the "real" clip buffer.

Hmmm, maybe I need to file a bug with the Firefox project, then.

> Some programs work that way, and those are the ones that override
> another program's clip when they get focus and have something selected.
> Others always just put the clip on the clipboard. Etc.
> 
>> I don't know that I follow - you mean like a tinyurl redirector?
> 
> Like that, but an error message.
> http://wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?searchInput=xyzzy

Hmmm, interesting.  The original doesn't show up in the history, either.

Jim

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