Re: Cut-Copy/Paste behavior

> On Monday 08 September 2003 02:25, Reilly Burke wrote:
> 
>>We are trying to get the point across that it's not that Linux has
>>implemented an incorrect method - our point is that it appears that
>>nobody in the Linux world has even thought about the subject at all.
>>That's what is really annoying!  Linux is really an IT back-end
>>operating system, not a general office productivity package.
>>
garry wrote:
> I run Linux at a school (SuSE 8.2) and cut and paste works perfectly.
> We see it as an advantage that you dont have to tell the OS to stick 
> something on the clipboard and our students are grateful for this behaviour.
> Contrary to not thinking about cut and paste the developers have come up with 
> an elegant solution.
> 
> Only our opinion
> Regards
> garry

Garry,

The problem that I have is that most of my paste operations are intended to 
*replace* content, i.e. double-click the content and hit Ctrl v.  However, 
as soon as you highlight by some method, you change what is in the buffer. 
That is not appropriate.

Jay