Re: Cut-Copy/Paste behavior

On Sunday 07 September 2003 14:25, Reilly Burke wrote:
> Jay Smith wrote:
>  >Why not get a wheel mouse? On all, or virtually all, of them, the wheel
>  >itself acts as the middle button. The scrolling function is very
>  >convenient as well.

<<snip>>

> The wheel mouse solution maybe works for IT types, but it doesn't work
> worth a hoot for graphics/office work because when you cut something
> from one application, nine times out of ten it disappears  when you try
> to paste it into another application no matter what type of mouse you
> have.

No. it doesn't disappear. It is on your clipboard. And it WORKS from 
application to application.
>
> The nice thing about Windows is that there's obviously a bunch of
> thoughtful Christian types at work thinking about all of these things
> and fixing them.  

I don't want to be rude but what have those ancient types to do with cut/paste 
in Linux?

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