I'm used to using CTRL+Y to delete a line in the editor. It's something
I picked up in some DOS-programs but it works in most editors. In the
POV-editor however it also wipes the buffer which isn't what I would
expect. Am I mistaken? 
I guess this is something in the Codemax editor and won't be changed in
any new versions of POV-Ray.
I just had to write this because once again I lost a large portion of
code I cut from a scene when I deleted aline before pasting it.

Cheers!

Remco

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Remco de Korte wrote:
> 
> I'm used to using CTRL+Y to delete a line in the editor. It's something
> I picked up in some DOS-programs but it works in most editors. In the
> POV-editor however it also wipes the buffer which isn't what I would
> expect. Am I mistaken?
> I guess this is something in the Codemax editor and won't be changed in
> any new versions of POV-Ray.
> I just had to write this because once again I lost a large portion of
> code I cut from a scene when I deleted aline before pasting it.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Remco

I use shift+delete to cut
I use shift+insert to paste

Never had a problem with this method :)

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> I use shift+delete to cut
> I use shift+insert to paste
> 
> Never had a problem with this method :)

I have always used ctrl+[x,c,v] to cut, copy and paste and ctrl+[d,f,g]
to repleace next, find, find next. Ever since I was using Atari, it
worked. :-)

Everything centered around the left hand and the right hand free for the
mouse or the arrow-keys.

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> Everything centered around the left hand and the right hand free for the
> mouse or the arrow-keys.

Since I am left handed and the mouse is in my left hand...

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hi all,

Remco de Korte wrote:
> I'm used to using CTRL+Y to delete a line in the editor. [...]
> In the
> POV-editor however it also wipes the buffer which isn't what I would
> expect. Am I mistaken?

ok, my 2c:

ctrl-y _should_ spell 'yank' (hmm,
in emacs, it does..) and not 'linecut'
as in povray/codemax, so remco is
right about this.

all the followups to his post were
misleaded to think that he *wanted*
to cut/copy something with c-y, which
he didnt (right?), but codemax _does_.

well, what remco (and myself) would
like to see is a c-y _without_ storing
the line to the buffer (where people
like us tend to store precious things,
right remco? :))

of course i wouldnt write this if i
didnt know the solution (he he).

 - and im not tellin you.. :P



okok, yes of course, here we go:

while the povray window is active,
press alt-enter to go to the codemax
props (menu editor/codemax properties),
choose the keyboard tab and look for
the &command LineCut (its the first
starting with an 'l', so alt-c followed
by the 'l' key will also bring you there).
select the &key assignment (ctrl-y) and
click the '&remove' button (er, youll find
the keyboard equiv yourself by now.. :)
next, you a&ssign the same shortcut to
the following command, which is named
'LineDelete' and does what it says, which
is what you and i want. :D


> I guess this is something in the Codemax editor and won't be changed in
> any new versions of POV-Ray.

now its up to you, pal.

> I just had to write this because once again I lost a large portion of
> code I cut from a scene when I deleted aline before pasting it.

aaarrgh d*rn again!

> Cheers!

hope this cheers _you_ up a bit..


gimi

master of _good_ yanking :)
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On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 21:32:31 +0100, gimi wrote:

>ok, my 2c:
>
>ctrl-y _should_ spell 'yank' (hmm,
>in emacs, it does..) 

Yeah, but in Emacs "yank" means "paste."

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Ron Parker wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 21:32:31 +0100, gimi wrote:
> >ok, my 2c:
> >
> >ctrl-y _should_ spell 'yank' (hmm,
> >in emacs, it does..)

> Yeah, but in Emacs "yank" means "paste."

thanks for the hint ;)

(may i introduce smy, the double-one-eyed smile)

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>Since I am left handed and the mouse is in my left hand...


Ah, I see you are from the previous generation... I've adapted to this
cruel, right-handed world in my short life, and use the mouse with my right
hand... have I betrayed my fellow lefties, or am I ambidextrous?

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TonyB wrote:
> 
> >Since I am left handed and the mouse is in my left hand...
> 
> Ah, I see you are from the previous generation... I've adapted to this
> cruel, right-handed world in my short life, and use the mouse with my right
> hand... have I betrayed my fellow lefties, or am I ambidextrous?

I am able to use a mouse in either hand but seem to prefer the left hand
out of habit. It leaves my right hand free to use the arrow keys and
numeric keypad without having to drop the mouse each time.

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On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:31:39 +0100, Remco de Korte
<rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote:

>I'm used to using CTRL+Y to delete a line in the editor. It's something
>I picked up in some DOS-programs but it works in most editors. In the
>POV-editor however it also wipes the buffer which isn't what I would
>expect. Am I mistaken? 
>I guess this is something in the Codemax editor and won't be changed in
>any new versions of POV-Ray.
>I just had to write this because once again I lost a large portion of
>code I cut from a scene when I deleted aline before pasting it.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Remco

During the 3.1 beta period I pointed this out as a bug and the author
of the CodeMax editor control wrote that it was the way he liked it
(i.e. ctrl-y = line cut, not line delete). It is not a but, therefore,
but a feature :)


Peter Popov
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