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GNOME 3.10 ReleasedGNOME 3.10 ReleasedPosted Sep 26, 2013 20:18 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)In reply to: GNOME 3.10 Released by Cyberax Parent article: GNOME 3.10 Released
> For example, you select a text and try to middle-paste it into the address bar of Firefox. Except that when you click on the address bar it replaces your selection. Nice.
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If you Middle-click, it just appends (or inserts, depending on where you middle-click) the selection in the point where you middle-clicked.
It's not select - click - middleclick; it's just select - middleclick.
> And then there's the constant problem of keeping track whether you've copied the selected text or not.
I don't get it. If you selected, then you "copied". If you middleclicked, then you "pasted"...
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GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 27, 2013 20:35 UTC (Fri) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]
> If you Middle-click, it just appends (or inserts, depending on where you middle-click) the selection in the point where you middle-clicked.
Which is useless. I want to replace the address with the contents of the PRIMARY selection. Inserting a new URL in the middle of an old one is *never* what I want to d.
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 27, 2013 22:37 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
speak for yourself, I frequently need to paste in URLs in multiple steps when people send me links that are extremely long and so get broken across lines.
admittedly, this is mostly a case of appending to the URL rather than inserting in the middle, but I've had reasons to do that as well.
a paste should either insert the text whereever the cursor currently is (my preference) or insert it where the pointer is (fallback), it should never blindly replace everything with a new thing if you didn't tell it ot
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 28, 2013 17:33 UTC (Sat) by james (subscriber, #1325) [Link] Have you tried pasting the entire broken URL into the address bar, line-breaks and all? Most GUI browsers will (attempt to) DTRT and remove the line-breaks for you.
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Sep 29, 2013 0:19 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
Yes, sometimes it works, sometimes not.
all too frequently, the URL now has spaces (or quote characters) added at the beginning of each line that will prevent the broawser from DTRT
GNOME 3.10 Released Posted Oct 2, 2013 7:58 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
KDE apps feature this x icon at the end of every text input which does exactly that - a middle click on it will empty the field and replace its contents with what was in the buffer while a click somewhere in the field will insert. Firefox (and every other app/platform lacking this) is to blame for not having this totally simple and obvious feature... reminds me of how session management was badly implemented and then blamed for not working, thus removed. Ignorance is bliss...
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