From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 12:38:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from george.he.net (george.he.net [216.218.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B7C37B424 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 12:38:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by george.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA15172; Sun, 20 May 2001 12:38:10 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 12:38:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8.billschoolcraft.com To: Chip Wiegand Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: copy & paste behavior - this really bugs me In-Reply-To: <20010520121341.1f7b9876.chip@wiegand.org> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Sun, 20 May 2001 it looks like Chip Wiegand composed: CW-->I use fbsd for my typical home use, on 3 machines, and if there is one item CW-->that I find difficult it is in copy & paste behavior. I use a mail client CW-->called sylpheed (based on gtk+), and netscape 4.76 (most of the time). Why CW-->can't I copy a url link from an email message and paste it into the location CW-->bar of netscape? This is such a pain to have to type in those often very CW-->long urls in some messages. CW-->Anyway, that's just my gripe, becuase I just came up against it again. CW--> CW--> I had a similar problem, worked with one Unix OS and not the other. I tried holding the key while cutting and that did it. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message