Re: X question
Personally this sounds like the best option. Duh, why didn't I think of that?
:-)
I do have another thought on this subject.
The fundamental issue with the solutions is that they require you to pause and
think about strategy, because each app has a different key to press or dialog to
invoke.
I'd love to see the use of a "meta-mode" (see Jeff Raskin's "Humane
Interfaces"). For example holding the Shift key could tell X to not copy the
selection. If so, the following sequence would work almost everywhere:
1) Select the URL you would like to jump to. It gets copied.
2) Press the Shift key while selecting the URL in the location bar (double-click
or click/drag). Shift prevents it from replacing the clipboard contents.
3) Press the Delete key. Note that this is a single keystroke, as opposed to
possibly 50 backspaces if you have to avoid using a selection.
3) Press the middle mouse button to paste the new URL.
Just a thought, but it sounds like an improvement to me.
In any case all of you have given me a some better tools to work with.
Thanks!
Steve
Brian Nelson wrote:
> Steve Cooper wrote:
> > The only issue I have with the X behavior is that I can't
> > figure out to efficiently perform a replacement paste. E.g.
> > If you want to paste a URL into a browser in Windoze you'd
> > select the current URL and paste over it.
> >
> > In X once you select the text you want to replace it
> > becomes the new copied text. I had some success using
> > gclipper, because it allowed me to access a stack of copied
> > text items. Is there a better way?
>
> Most browsers in linux have a shortcut to open a dialog box that prompts
> for a location-- Ctrl-L in Mozilla, or Ctrl-O in Konqueror. I find
> using these easier than pasting url's directly into the
> address/location/whatever box in the main window.
>
> -Nelson
>
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