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

[Srinivas Nayak]

> 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.

I agree.
But, I think, quitting is the last option.

By the way, I suppose, nobody including me, even Professor Wirth, uses Oberon as his primary OS.
So, when nobody uses it, where is the point of quitting?

None of us use Oberon, but we use it.
We all have already quitted it, yet nobody has quitted Oberon.
The affair is such a paradox!


With thanks and best regards,

Yours sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak

Home: http://www.mathmeth.com/sn/
Blog: http://srinivas-nayak.blogspot.in/

On 04/19/2016 10:09 PM, eas lab wrote:
> 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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