From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OL2j3-0002gA-3Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:24:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6853AE09F4; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D7AE09F4 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A761B4025 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:23:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.000, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sdxgwNKvnXzp for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:23:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 331CC1B4013 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OL2iK-0005TR-4o for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:23:40 +0200 Received: from 110-175-240-90.static.tpgi.com.au ([110.175.240.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:23:40 +0200 Received: from lie.1296 by 110-175-240-90.static.tpgi.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:23:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Lie Ryan Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Pasting jacked up for mnths now... like a bugger Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:21:24 +1000 Message-ID: References: <87iq5xw3bt.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 110-175-240-90.static.tpgi.com.au User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100413 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <87iq5xw3bt.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 X-Archives-Salt: bcf341fc-2cc3-4450-8499-c2f2eebb2e1f X-Archives-Hash: a088000e9fdb7798d6352d2fa8ff86a7 On 06/06/10 07:56, Harry Putnam wrote: > Does anyone else notice a serious mess when copy/pasting to firefox. > Some other places too. I don't. But, I guess you need to clarify, when you're saying you "copy/paste", is it Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V type of copy/pasting or Middle-click type of copy/pasting? > This was the result: > -US%3I actually doubt itAunofficial&q=pdf2html+opensource&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=http://twibright.com/pdf2html what was inside the navigation box before? Firefox's middle-click url-paste only works if your middle click is not in the address bar. If you middle-click in the address bar, the regular buffer-paste mechanism takes over (i.e. it will paste your selection buffer without deleting what's previously on the address bar). So, we have three copy-paste mechanism: - Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V, we're all familiar with this - Buffer-Paste, provided by X, pastes your selection buffer to hovered textbox - Url-Paste, provided by Firefox, loads the URL in the selection buffer, which as a side effect, replaces the address bar with that url