Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Tue May 30 19:23:52 UTC 2006


On Tue, 30 May 2006 13:13:12 -0500, Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell at gmail.com> opined:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:56 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> 
> > So in summary after copy or cut, I am never sure whether
> > shift-insert or the mouse-middle-button will paste the just cut
> > text. Frequently, neither works properly.
> > 
> > Anyone else? Any suggestions? This is one of those minor
> > annoyances that is extremely frustrating at times.
> 
> Middle-mouse should paste what is currently highlighted (without
> needing an extra copy step), right-mouse/paste or the keyboard
> equivalent should paste whatever you last right-mouse/copied.
> Usually application menu edit/copy edit/paste are the same
> as the right-mouse versions but sometimes they go their own way.
> 
That's actually a huge help. I have been highlighting + ctrl-c and
THAT is what creates the problem.

Thanks MUCH!

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