Re: Cut-Copy/Paste behavior

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Joby Joseph wrote:
> Just to sum up.
>   a)Mouse cut/copy/paste works with all the applications in linux.
>   b)Its behaviour is different from MS. It works as follows.
>       1)Highlight with LEFT mouse. (This is equivalent to highlight and 
>           Copy of MS)
>        2)Go to where you want to pate and click MIDDLE mouse button.
>            This works independent of whether it is scrol mouse or 
>             'normal' 3 button mouse. 
>        3) What ever you have marked previous to your latest marking 
>             is also available on the clipboard. In of KDE any of these 
>             can be  chosen from the Klipper pad on your toolbar, to be 
>            pasted  (Of course using just a middle  mouse button click.)
>             In the MOZILLA case when you click on the URL column for
>             pasting, may be what ever text that is already there gets 
>             highlighted and thus gets copied to clipboard. So what ever 
>             you wanted to paste is not in the top of the clipboard list.
>             May be this is a confusion. BUT YOU CAN CHOOSE IT 
>             FROM THE KLIPPER as mentioned above and pated.

I am not using KDE.

C'mon, it's a bug.  If it wasn't a bug the Mozilla bug would have been
closed now.  Are you claiming you followed the steps listed in the bug and
the behavior described in the bug did not happen?