smith@canon.co.uk (Mark Smith) (08/30/90)
Well, it's been at least three days since anybody at the Canon Research Centre pissed and moaned about Open Windows, so here's something about Open Look which is either a bug or a feature. You decide. Cut/Copy/Paste works essentially the same under Open Look as on the Mac or NeXT or under SunView, with one exception. If you Copy some text into the buffer, then select some other text, and Paste over top of it, the text you pasted over gets copied to the buffer at the same time that it's replaced. This is really annoying. The typical case when I run into this is in textedit (yes I use textedit and I'm not ashamed so stop looking at me like that) where there's a word I want to replace just a few times. For example, say I have: foo bar bar and I want to change both the "bar"s to "foo". On the other systems, you could double click on foo, select Copy, then double click on "bar", and select Paste. This won't work under Open Look, because when you Paste "foo" over "bar" the first time, "bar" replaces "foo" in the buffer. Is it supposed to do this? I've never had a situation where I wanted this behaviour rather than the other more typical case. Does anyone prefer it this way? Is this the result of one of those Scientific Studies? ========================================================================= Mark Smith smith@canon.co.uk Canon Research Centre Europe ..ukc!uos-ee!canon!smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------- soft driven slow and mad like some new language