On 03/10/2015 at 10:31 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 03/10/2015 at 09:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Complicated by any attempt to pre-clear the address bar so you can >> try the paste again causes the paste buffer to be overwritten by >> the contents of said malformed address bar. So instead of fixing it >> so one can edit it and fix it, you have to start from scratch, >> redoing the whole copy/paste. Neither is exactly user friendly. > > This is only a problem if you're using the middle-click paste > buffer. Clicking into the address bar will highlight the existing > URL, and will therefore overwrite the contents of the middle-click > paste buffer - but it will not affect the contents of the Ctrl-V > paste buffer. > > I routinely right-click on a link from my mail client, click "Copy > Link Location", switch desktops to Iceweasel, open a new tab with > Ctrl-T, and hit Ctrl-V to paste the copied URL. It works flawlessly. ...but is irrelevant to the problem you're presenting, because in a new tab there is no address-bar text to be pulled into the paste buffer. However, I also sometimes right-click, "Copy Link Location", hit F6 to shift focus into the address bar (thereby highlighting the existing URL), and hit Ctrl-V to paste; it also works flawlessly. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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