From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 14:19:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFFE37B43C for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 14:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@siteplus.com) Received: from siteplus.com ([65.14.122.116]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010520211916.HIDL21661.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@siteplus.com>; Sun, 20 May 2001 14:19:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0834CE.70A0FC8@siteplus.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 17:19:11 -0400 From: Jim Weeks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Chip Wiegand Subject: Re: copy & paste behavior - this really bugs me References: <20010520121341.1f7b9876.chip@wiegand.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chip, I find that this does work, but it is a little strange in application. Try highlighting the text and going strait to the address box with a single middle key click. I usually do this at the beginning of whatever address is already there, and then drag the rest off by highlighting and hitting the delete key. Hope this helps, -- Jim Weeks jim@siteplus.com http://siteplus.com Chip Wiegand wrote: > I use fbsd for my typical home use, on 3 machines, and if there is one item > that I find difficult it is in copy & paste behavior. I use a mail client > called sylpheed (based on gtk+), and netscape 4.76 (most of the time). Why > can't I copy a url link from an email message and paste it into the location > bar of netscape? This is such a pain to have to type in those often very > long urls in some messages. > Anyway, that's just my gripe, becuase I just came up against it again. > > -- > Regards, > > Chip > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message