Clipboard selection - solution(?)

[Jörg Walter]

On Friday 15 November 2002 22:52, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Friday 15 November 2002 14:00, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Friday 15 November 2002 03:12, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:39:20AM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > > The differences from the X11-pure style can be:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) text selected by keyboard doesn't become PRIMARY
> > > > > 5) when a text is selected elsewhere, previously selected text
> > > > > stays selected with a different color
> > > >
> > > > 1) yes
> > >
> > > i strongly disagree ... what's your argument against it? i often use
> > > it.
> >
> >  I disagree too, 1) should be IMHO no, even though I don't really insist
> > (does somebody really use Shift+arrows->MMB paste?).
>
> Yes, here !
> for select larger texts (including scrolling using shift+pg down) and then
> pasting them somewhere.

Well, finally I can't keep silent anymore. I am very happy that it seems like 
we finally get a well-thought,useful and balanced selection/clipboard 
behaviour in KDE. I want to raise just one minor point:
While we have a way to mouse-paste keyboard selections (clipboard through 
RMB/Paste, selection through MMB) and keyboard-paste the clipboard, there is 
no (global standard) way to keyboard-paste the selection. Konsole has 
Shift-Control-Insert and it is incredibly useful to me. IMHO this should be 
possible in every application. Wherever Shift-Insert would paste CLIPBOARD, 
make some other key paste PRIMARY in exactly the same way as CLIPBOARD would 
have been pasted.
I definitely support mixing mouse and keyboard - sometimes it does happen that 
you make a selection using one device and later have your hands ready at the 
other device (think of selected text in KHTML, to be used in konsole, kate or 
another mostly-keyboard app). More importantly, there are apps where only one 
way of marking is possible (xterm-like apps, for example). Of course, this 
would be a feature for advanced users - people not knowing MMB don't need to 
know about Shift-Ctrl-Insert either.

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CU
  Joerg

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