On Thursday 22 October 2009 03:31:25 am Will Stephenson wrote:
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.
Put another way - How to delete the existing line edit contents while preserving the selection buffer?
What you suggest is one way around this problem. I feel (unsurprisingly) that the most elegant solution is what KLineEdit, KComboBox etc have - add a clear text button to the widget. It's discoverable and doesn't require switching from mouse to keyboard.
As a fallback for Firefox, etc, I just do what I guess Windows users habitually do - Copy (in any of a number of ways) the url to 'clipboard', alt- d OR double click the text to replace and ctrl-v. If you select 'sync selection and clipboard' in Klipper you have the convenience of drag-to-select with this method.
Your proposed 'meta-select + backspace to delete while preserving selection then click to paste' would a similar amount of combined mousing and keyboard tricks, and different to 'doze.
PS - there are Firefox extensions that add a clear location bar button to the toolbar. 'Neo Diggler' (untried, untested) seems to be one.
Will
Neo Diggler, if it does what you say, will be worth it's weight in gold... Off to the mozilla site -- Thanks! P.S. My normal work around for copy/paste/recopy... is just to start an instance of kwrite each day and I use it for a scratch pad/note taker. Then at the end of the day I just save my scratch pads under ~/notes/np-20091025.txt. Kills a couple of birds and leaves me with a date ordered set of notes that can then go where ever they need to. (file, timesheet, calendar, etc.. at then end of the day) -- 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org