Re: Event to trigger writeSelectionToPasteboard
Re: Event to trigger writeSelectionToPasteboard
- Subject: Re: Event to trigger writeSelectionToPasteboard
- From: Peter Watkins <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:00:47 -0800
Hi Graham,
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 05/01/2011, at 3:04 AM, Peter Watkins wrote:
>
> This is what I'm really trying to achieve, "I'm writing an app that lets
> the user select text in one program and paste it into another by
> middle-clicking the mouse button."
>
>
>
> But why?
>
A couple reasons:
1) It's actually faster than Cmd-C, Cmd-V: You can do the entire copy-paste
without using the keyboard.
2) Most UNIX users are used to copying and pasting this way (using the
selection buffer). The copy-paste buffer still exists on UNIX, but most
users don't use it.
There is a perfectly reasonable standard way to cut and paste in a way that
> works in virtually all apps that users are well used to. This is
> non-standard, non-intuitive and difficult to implement 'solution' to a
> problem that doesn't appear to exist. That's why it's hard to implement,
> because it's not (on the face of it) very sensible.
>
This is correct for almost every Mac user. However there's a small segment
of Mac users that come from a Linux/Sun/BSD background, and they really like
the middle-click paste. They like it so much, in fact, that I've heard of
some users switching to a Mac and then switching back to *NIX because the
Mac doesn't have middle-click paste.
> Also, not all mouses (mice?) have a middle button. The standard current
> Apple Wireless Mouse for example, does not.
>
True, and it drives me up the wall. I got an Apple Magic Mouse and used it
for awhile, but I switched back to my old Mighty Mouse because the Magic
Mouse doesn't have a middle-click. I use the middle-click paste all the time
when I log into work (my company's software only runs on *NIX) from my Mac.
So, I still think a separate program that provides a selection buffer with
middle-click paste is just the thing for *NIX users switching to a Mac.
-Peter
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