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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Copy and paste in KDE
From:       Andreas Simon <yuipx () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-02-27 17:54:33
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On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 18:37, John Golubenko wrote:
> Hello folks,
> Let me see...
> If you say editing some text, and then you go google and you find
> some better version on the web, you do quick selection (3rd button ||
> ctrl-c), and after you want to overwrite what you already have, so you
> select it and press 3rd mb || ctrl-c, and you end up with same text.
> 
> So basically you need:
> 
> a:
> 	1. Open browser window and find wanted text
> 	2. Go back to old window and delete unwanted text
> 	3. Go back to browser window and select wanted text
> 	4. Go back to old window and paste it

No, you don't.
 
> b:
> 	1. Open browser window and find  wanted text, select it
> 	2. Go back to old window, select unwanted text and paste it over

With KDE 3 I do the following:
Select text in browser, press CTRL-C (Copy), select
text in text editor, replace this text with CTRL-V (Paste).

> So, it is clear that people who's coming from windows world will
> argue that winblows' way is quicker/better.

This is no longer the case.

Cheers,
Andreas

 
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