About copy & paste

[K.O.ed Sephiroth]

I think we shall enhance copy & paste function in 2.0.

1. Copy on select.

Well, I admit that I don't feel this function useful. However, as the guy mentioned in issues, iTerm.app have such a function. Anyone can help me finding a meaning for this function? Why we need this? I could hardly imagine someone browsing the BBS and do a lot of copying work. Even if he need to copy a lot, he shall paste the clipboard to somewhere after his copying, but not making next copy.

2. Rectangle selection

Well, this might be useful, very LIMITED, though.

3. Key shortcut.

For me, Paste With Color is used most frequently, and I seldom use Paste With Warp. How about you guys' habit? Anyway, I guess Paste With Warp is not so useful. And In my opinion, it's not so comfortable to press V while holding Cmd and Alt, Cmd + Shift + V maybe better? I'd like to alter this two shortcut. Indeed, I hope I can use Cmd + V to do the Color Paste work, but gtCarrera said there maybe more user prefer to use the colorless paste.

In addition, many users hope that we could provide a configure page to set all these shortcut. But this is not easy to implement, I guess. Can we find some reference codes?

[TANG Yang]

orz English LGC!

1. How if someone mistakenly selects a paragraph and then his original clipboard goes away?

2. Sometimes when we want to copy certain columns from a table, it is useful. I have met such occasions.

3. I don't think changing any present shortcut is a good idea. For "Paste with wrap", it works perfectly when pasting English articles. Besides, I prefer mono-paste to color-paste.

I have no idea on how to make shortcut preferences...

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TANG Yang
Dept. of Computer Science and Technology
Tsinghua University
Tel: (86-10) 51532207

[Xi Wang]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 1:21 AM, TANG Yang <tangy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> orz English LGC!
> 1. How if someone mistakenly selects a paragraph and then his original
> clipboard goes away?

vote yes.

> 2. Sometimes when we want to copy certain columns from a table, it is
> useful. I have met such occasions.

is there any such usage in common applications on mac or windows? how
did they solve the problem?

> 3. I don't think changing any present shortcut is a good idea. For "Paste
> with wrap", it works perfectly when pasting English articles. Besides, I
> prefer mono-paste to color-paste.
> I have no idea on how to make shortcut preferences...

i use "paste with wrap" a lot, but it does not hurt having no
shortcut. browsing is a more frequent exercise than posting.