On Wednesday 01 April 2015 11:24:23 Kirk Wallace wrote: > On 04/01/2015 06:33 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... snip > > > My distaste for gedit is because gedit probably cost me 2 extra > > weeks getting my lathe running with a 5i25 card because of its > > propensity to copy a line, or several lines of .hal stuff, into the > > middle of other lines of .hal stuff, > > ... snip > > I have had this happen to me and it seems my mouse wheel is the source > of trouble. The wheel is also the middle button which seems to have a > paste function. When I use the wheel to scroll through a file there is > a risk that turning the wheel also trips the middle button. One time, > I pasted an e-mail reply several times into a large Python file. > Sometimes, it can take weeks to discover the error. I've tried > changing all my mice to ones without wheels, but they are too handy > for scrolling and some software requires a wheel. I suppose I should > figure out how to disable the wheel button function.
I am aware of that problem too, and it has bit me also. But I can't see it pasting stuff 200+ lines on down the file from where the cursor is at. What I usually do is open up some white space, do the paste, then nuke the unwanted white space. But I totally agree, putting the paste as the MMB push when its the scroll wheel we are pushing on, was not one of our more genius mouse inventions. If I had my druthers, there would still be an MMB, down in front of the scroll wheel, with a raised top so if we straightend out the finger, it still would not touch the scroll wheel, even for people like me with a dogpatch ham hand that still cannot reach an octave spread on the piano keyboard. I have to buy gloves in the XXL size, struggle to get them on because the wrist opening is still too tight and then have an inch or more of empty fingers/thumbs in the way. Its a friggin PIMA to me. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
