Re: Regarding control-L
stan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.galeon.user |
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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:12:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:26:41AM -0800, Silvio Levy ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > But selected, so that any input or pasting into causes original text > > > to get replaced. Which seems usefull to me - if you don't want it, just > > > start typing or paste, if you do, you are able to edit. > > > > It has been said several times that ^L highlights the URL and > > selects it, and so is just as good as the old way of doing things. > > > > But that is not so. In 1.2, you could click the paint-brush, and the > > URL would be erased. With ^L, you get focusing and highlighting, so > > yes, you can start typing to overwrite -- but 99% of the time that's > > not what I want! What I want is to apply a URL that I've highlighted > > somewhere else and that is currently in the buffer. This cannot be > > done with ^L, which erases the buffer! > > Actually... A related behavior I *don't* see is the ability to > *restore* the current URL after clearing the navbar. Used be hitting > <esc> would do this (FFX has this behavior). Not in Galeon. Is there > any way to restore the current page's URL to the navbar quickly? > > > > (I'm talking here about cut-and-paste the quick way, using the left mouse > > to highlight and the middle mouse to paste it somewhere else, not the > > Windows ^C-^V way.) > > Middle-mouse paste to the browser render area will open the pasted text > as a URL (or present an error dialog for unparsable strings). > > You may have to set your Galeon middle mouse action to do this properly, > IIRC G1.3 defaults to automatic scroll (ugh) a' la MSIE (retch!) > > Edit => Preferences => Mouse => Middle Button > Past URL in current tab > Thanks, I'll give that a try. It wiil help. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl