Re: terminals and urls and copying

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From: Ann Barcomb
Subject: Re: terminals and urls and copying
Date: 23:18 on 24 Mar 2004
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Yoz Grahame wrote:

> In Windows, I can copy a bunch of formatted text from a web browser (IE
> or Mozilla, doesn't matter) and paste it into a word processor (Word or
> OpenOffice, doesn't matter) and it retains the formatting.

...which really annoys me.  If I am trying to mail myself content from
a web page, and I don't want HTML-markup in the mail (I never do), I have
to paste it first in notepad, and then reselect it from notepad to insert
in to Notes.

Not that I'm happy with cutting and pasting in X.  There's that IRC
problem mentioned earlier (I use control-z if I want to paste), and I
think I complained earlier about being unable to paste content from a
web browser under some situations.  Plus if I highlight something--like
a URL--to delete it, I lose what I had in the buffer.  Would it be so
hard to give me just a simple vi-like buffer?

- Ann
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