Chris Linstid wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Michael Reilly <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > 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,
>> Time they modernized it - isn't it? No reason it cannot be configurable
>> to meet
>> the user's requirements 13 years later.
>
>
> What do you actually want them to do? If they have the same basic keyboard
> shortcuts on all Macs, you can sit down at any Mac and already know how to
> copy and paste. I completely agree that being able to customize your
> desktop/environment is a good thing, but for such basic tasks, I don't see
> how you can customize any further than that. How exactly do you want to be
> able to copy and paste in the rest of OS X? Select and middle-click?
Exactly. It should be my choice - not someone in Apple someplace. There is no
reason not to make it user configurable except Apple's "we'll tell you how to do
it" attitude.
On the occasion I use Windows the Mouse follows the pointer (MS application to
enable it) and select/paste work using just the mouse (Microsoft KB article
described how to make it work awhile ago and a couple of third party are
available to do it.
> As
> you said, X11 has been around as long as the CMD-X/CMD-V shortcuts, so how
> is the select/middle-click method really any more modern than the keyboard
> shortcuts?
>
> I've been pretty happy with the integration of X11 into OS X.
As you may have guessed I have not.
michael
> At least
> they
> actually provide it with the OS unlike some other OS vendors that I will
> not
> speak of.
>
> I am hoping that with Leopard the integration will be even more clean, but
> I'm not holding my breath either. :)
>
> - Chris
>
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