[olug] copy & paste

[Mike McNally]

My 2 button mouse does cut 'n paste.  Gary needs to check wether his
mouse is set to enable the 3rd button emulation.  left then right then
simutaneously click on the desktop in Xwindows and you should get three
different windows to pull up.  This is windows manager specific, but I
would presume close to 100% of windows managers are using all 3 clicks. 
If this doesn't work then it's probably just the enable 3button
emulation setting, which is easy to fix.

I do however, get extra tabs in the translation from cut to paste....
why's that?  If there's one tab in front of ea line the 2nd will get
2tabs the 3rd 3 and so on.  It makes large cut and pastes somewhat
annoying.

mike


"Mark A. Martin" wrote:
> 
> I use a 3-button mouse and have no difficulty doing exactly what you
> described.  I suggest getting a 3-button mouse.  The one I'm currently
> using only cost about $10 and is perfectly adequate.
> 
> Another idea would be to make a copy of the file that contains only the
> text you want to include in the message and attach it to the message.
> Text files are usually attached inline in messenger, although only the
> recipient will be able to see the text.  This won't be ideal, especially
> if you want to intersperse comments to the text in your message.
> 
> Mark
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