On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:02:20 -0500, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com opined:
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:53 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote:
It is obviously up to the application developers to decide which key bindings they want to support in which context. It is up to the desktop style guides to define what should work. The Gnome apps I'm using behave as expected, and support both clipboards. In some cases, alternative keyboard shortcuts must be used (like SHIFT-^C), e.g. in a terminal window running a shell - for obvious reasons.
Well, there you go. With better standards that are recognized and honored, a developer won't be in the position of power and authority to 'decide' which keybindings they use. It would be a standard, with no deviations.
What? What does a new standard mean to something you've already been using for the last 30 years? For me, it would mean that the new standard would be ignored.
"Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare"? Give me a break!
And, as has been posted, it -is- a nightmare for some, including the likes of jdow, Tim, myself and others.
Yet, none of them have bothered to post where the right-mouse cut/paste menu choices fail to work as expected.
This issue is most troublesome because select is captured. Therefore, in some applications, you cannot select what you want to replace because the selected text-to-be replaced becomes the text-that-you-want-to-replace-it-with. -;) In some applications neither ctrl-c nor ctrl-v work at all.
I would be very happy if ctrls c, x and v would work the way they are expected to work across the board. That the functionality seems to vary among applications (along with right-click, middle-click and shift-insert) makes life a whole lot more complicated than it should be. Sometimes, it is rather frustrating if you are moving text around a great deal between applications and sometimes the command line.