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[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <address@hidden>]

On 1/17/06, Magnus Rohde <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Den 17/1-2006, kl. 11:14, skrev Javier Arantegui:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > El Martes, 17 de Enero de 2006 11:04, Magnus Rohde escribió:
> >> In the newest version (1.0.6), I noticed that when text is selected by
> >> dragging the mouse it is automatically copied. Is this the way it is
> >> supposed to be?
> >
> > Well, it's the common behaviour in Unix/Linux. After that you can
> > paste the
> > text using the middle button of the mouse.
>
> I was kinda expecting this answer, but just because it is common on
> Unix does not mean that it is the way it should be.
> Actually, with the current behaviour the possibility for data-loss is
> quite big, I think. Consider this situation: say I want to move a
> section of my thesis/paper/letter to mom, so I select the area with the
> mouse (as many people would do, esp. with large sections of text) and
> select "cut". I then move the insertion point again with the mouse, but
> instead of a single click I accidentally dragged the mouse and selected
> a single letter, and since it copied automatically I have now lost the
> text I was trying to move.
> I think that this example is typical of how many people use computers
> to edit text (maybe Unix users excluded).
>

First of all, I do not understand why anyone would use mouse to select
text inside texmacs. You get better control by the keyboard itself and
it is quicker that way.

That being said, if something like above happens, you can use the undo
command ( Ctrl-_ ) a couple of times and make your selection again.

Please do not change the behaviour of the keyboard to ctrl-c, ctrl-v.
That just makes it more inconvinient IMHO.

raju