From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 21 15:46:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B1A216A41F for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:46:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F20C43D45 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:46:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 20250 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2005 15:46:10 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Nov 2005 15:46:09 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 819512841B; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:46:06 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Jerry McAllister References: <200511211511.jALFBrpD003855@clunix.cl.msu.edu> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 21 Nov 2005 10:46:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200511211511.jALFBrpD003855@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: <444q66xav5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Peter , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: copy & paste troubles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:46:16 -0000 Jerry McAllister writes: > I have noticed that numerous applications, including HTLM forms tend > to insert where-ever the mouse pointer is rather than where the > cursor is. Or, maybe, as soon as you click the mouse to do the > insert, it first changes the cursor position to wherever the pointer > is and then does the insert. > > So, I just have to make sure I move my mouse pointer to exactly where I > want things to insert. I get caught on this frequently. > Shift-insert is often useful for this case...