Re: [Pan-users] Feature request: Edit->Copy menu item in main PAN window.

[Charles Sullivan]

On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 22:28:34 -0800
"Himanshu J. Gohel" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Charles Sullivan wrote:
> > 
> > Having the ability to copy a highlighted block of text in a
> > newsgroup article to the Gnome clipboard with an Edit->Copy menu
> > item would be a useful feature for PAN.
> 
> I agree with you that Pan should support the standard cut/copy/paste
> menu items and keyboard shortcuts.  However:
> 
> > different Gnome application.  Although the block can currently be
> > captured simply by highlighting with the mouse, when pasted (by
> > clicking mouse button #2) into a window containing existing text,
> > it's usually not pasted at the cursor position.
> 
> Pan (and maybe it's Gnome) is following standard X11 conventions for
> copy/paste, i.e. the pasting occurs where you click with the mouse
> pointer, not where the insert position is.  Ofcourse, they can be the
> same location as long as you point your mouse over the current insert
> position.

Hmmm... Now that you describe what's supposed to happen I can see that
it works, but I'm wondering why I didn't realize that earlier.  (Creeping 
senility I guess.)

Many thanks for pointing it out.

Regards,
Charles Sullivan