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[opensuse] klipper - How to select without changing remembered selection?
- From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:53:06 -0500
- Message-id: <200910192353.06338.drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Listmates,
I don't know if this is possible currently, but if it isn't, it should
be.
One of the areas where kde is light-years ahead is with the copy/paste
convenience provided by the dual clipboard/selection buffers that klipper
offers. However many, many times I have selected something that I will want to
paste only to find I have to select something else to clear a text-box like
the google search box or firefox address bar. This requires that you either
click into the text-box hit 'end' and 'backspace' over all the existing text
you need to clear (PITA with very long URLs) or I just resolve to
select/delete/reselect/paste -- wasted effort.
Yes I know I could actually 'copy' the information to the clipboard
buffer
and that the next selection into the 'selection' buffer does not alter the
copy buffer (I do that when I know a select/delete is needed), but I'm talking
about all the times you select something for a quick paste only to then find
out another select/delete will be needed after you shuffle through the open
windows to get where you needed to paste the information.
There should be a way to ctrl+select or meta+select that would allow
you to
select what you need to delete without disturbing the text in the selection
buffer. Does something like that already exist?
If not, can somebody think of a way to set that up in kde or X in
general?
This is something that a really smart kde developer could seize upon
and slip
into the next kde update and have added a feature that goes down in
convenience/efficiency history ;-) I'll open a feature request if it doesn't
already exist.
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
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I don't know if this is possible currently, but if it isn't, it should
be.
One of the areas where kde is light-years ahead is with the copy/paste
convenience provided by the dual clipboard/selection buffers that klipper
offers. However many, many times I have selected something that I will want to
paste only to find I have to select something else to clear a text-box like
the google search box or firefox address bar. This requires that you either
click into the text-box hit 'end' and 'backspace' over all the existing text
you need to clear (PITA with very long URLs) or I just resolve to
select/delete/reselect/paste -- wasted effort.
Yes I know I could actually 'copy' the information to the clipboard
buffer
and that the next selection into the 'selection' buffer does not alter the
copy buffer (I do that when I know a select/delete is needed), but I'm talking
about all the times you select something for a quick paste only to then find
out another select/delete will be needed after you shuffle through the open
windows to get where you needed to paste the information.
There should be a way to ctrl+select or meta+select that would allow
you to
select what you need to delete without disturbing the text in the selection
buffer. Does something like that already exist?
If not, can somebody think of a way to set that up in kde or X in
general?
This is something that a really smart kde developer could seize upon
and slip
into the next kde update and have added a feature that goes down in
convenience/efficiency history ;-) I'll open a feature request if it doesn't
already exist.
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
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