[Oberon] Trouble with copy paste. Awkward feature comes in.

[eas lab]

There's no point in using ETHO, if you're still uncomfortable with
mouse chording.
IMO the TUI is the most important attribute of ETHO.
But like wily: which is even more 'extremely' mouse based; it too has
near zero popularity.

== Chris Glur.



On 4/19/16, Jörg <joerg.straube at iaeth.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Cursor (called Caret in Oberon) and selection are two different things.
>
> First, set the Caret where you want your text to be copied (destination)
> Then select (origin text) and interclick to copy the text to the Caret
> location.
>
> Jörg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oberon [mailto:oberon-bounces at lists.inf.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> Srinivas
> Nayak
> Sent: Dienstag, 19. April 2016 13:18
> To: ETH Oberon and related systems <oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch>
> Subject: [Oberon] Trouble with copy paste. Awkward feature comes in.
>
> I could never do the interclicks perfectly for copy paste. (May be because
> of non-Oberon habits) :-(
> I wish if I could integrate ctrl-c and ctrl-v feature from other Oberon
> version to my NO.
>
> The biggest trouble while doing copy-paste is, an awkward feature.
> Say, I have only one viewer, V1 opened in user track.
> I have to copy something from V1 to system log viewer, V2.
> I selected the word/phrase in V1, cursor is also seen in V1.
> I went to V2, did a ML. Cursor went to V2.
> If I do another ML at the same point, Cursor goes back to V1!
> Being curious, I did another ML, it comes to V2 again.
> With another ML, it again goes back to V1.
> And so on.
>
> What is the usefulness of this feature?
>
>
> With thanks and best regards,
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Srinivas Nayak
>
> Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
> Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/
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