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Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications?

Michael Reilly wrote:
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I've stopped thinking about this.  In fact I end up using the middle
mouse button to paste in Terminal.app also.

Middle mouse paste is the X11 standard - always has been.  But it doesn't always
work.  Instead some UI designer decided it was better to drop the mouse, hit an
obscure keyboard combination (I don't see a connection between a 'V' and the
word paste) and then move you hand back to the mouse.  I can't think of a worse
UI implementation.

While I am angry at Apple for their bad integration between X11 and Aqua, I don't agree with you here. Using the mouse and the keyboard together for copying is a question of taste and of habit. In any case, Apple's Command-X/C/V for cut/copy/paste has been around since the first Mac in 1984, which is at least as old as the first versions of "the X window system" (X11 came a couple of years later). I remember quite well some SUN shell windows under X11 from not too long ago where you had to activate a deeply nested menu with the mouse in order to choose cut/copy/paste. Much worse than Apple's keyboard shortcuts that only give you cramps for the first couple of days ;-)

--
Martin


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 >Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>)
 >Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Scott Buchanan <email@hidden>)
 >Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>)
 >Re: copy and paste between Aqua and X11 applications? (From: Michael Reilly <email@hidden>)



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