"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> > You could even 'save' the file in this manner into another open
> > application. For
> > example, a graph program would save a standard vector-graphics file, but
> > if you
> > wanted to use the graph directly you'd just 'save' it staight into your
> > document processor window and it would be inserted at the caret.
>
> Today it seems that Copy&Paste between applications has replaced this.  I
> use Ctrl-C Ctrl-V the whole time for moving things between applications.

True. In fact, a system clipboard was something RISCOS lacked, although there
was plenty of freeware that implemented it.

> Using Right Mouse Button to select an item from the menu left the menu open
> after doing the command.  This was really useful when you wanted to select
> several menu items in succession, especially if they were nested menus.

Yep, I hardly ever left-clicked on anything! That extra mouse button was
incredibly useful.

Also: opening a directory viewer with right-double-click would close the parent
directory viewer (obviously not applicable to current filer browsers!)
Similarly, right-click closing a directory viewer would open the parent.
Incredibly useful for quickly navigating directory trees.

> When you dragged a scroll-bar the pointer was locked to move only in the
> direction of the scroll bar, this meant you couldn't "slip" off the edge the
> scroll bar and lose the grip.

One of my favourites was the right-button scroll-bar dragging - if you had both
horizontal and vertical scrollbars in that window you would then be scrolling
both of them at once - 'panning' in fact.

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