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- From: ericb@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Furry Logic)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2
- Message-ID: <6086@pdxgate.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 06:22:59 GMT
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- parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:
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- || |MB2 pop-up menu for marked text like in CUA demo
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- || Can you elaborate?
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- |I don't know if this is the same thing that Ethan is talking about but I
- |would like to be able to mark text in windows and copy and past it easilyy
- |with the keyboard and mouse. As an example, Hold {ALT,CTRL,SHIFT - you
- |pick} down while moving the mouse will mark a block - the current method is
- |VERY cumber some. Then ALT-MB3 could simply paste it in somewhere.
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- |In X-Windows (twm at least) , it's even simpler, holding down the left
- |button does the marking/copying and the right button does the pasting.
- |Would make things much nicer.
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- Definately this method.... ^
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- And take out the %@$#! carriage return it adds every time you paste. :)
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- -e.b.
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