bascule wrote: > everyone is right of course, except that i wouldn't mind being able to > highlight/select a useful url when i see one, go to my browser and highlight > whatever is in the loc bar hit delete and then paste in my new 'find' and not > what i just deleted, is there no way to make a 'highlighting' of text > semi-permanent so that the next highlighting doesn't immediately replace it? > i think 'klipper' might do this for kde apps but i'm thinking of something > more 'X'y using the keyboard amd mouse buttons? > bascule,
I wrote to the maintainer of klipper with several suggestions along these lines. He sounded willing to implement at least one of them (but perhaps not the way I would have preferred). I'm hoping we'll see something in kde3 (something might already be there -- I'm not ususally successful loading new software, so I usually wait until a new distro includes it). The suggestion he seemed most willing to implement was along the lines of being able to choose when you wanted text to be sent to the klipper buffer. I was thinking of by requiring <ctrl>c or <ctrl>x, he seemed to prefer providing an on/off switch of some sort. My other suggestions involved assigning keyboard macros to the strings in the buffer, so that, for example you could paste the string in the first buffer with something like <ctrl><alt>1, the second buffer with <ctrl><alt>2, and so on. (I didn't specify which shortcut keys to use, ideally it would be configurable.) Finally, IIRC, I suggested that he give us a means to create permanent buffers of text with shortcut keys assigned. (I suggested up to 100 or more.) If you think these ideas are worthwhile, you might wish to reinforce my request. (I did not put it in bugzilla because bugzilla expects you to be using one of the more recent versions of KDE (and Klipper), and I was (am still) using Mandrake 7.2 (with the MandrakeFreq update of around 20010316). When I find his name and the original email, I'll post again. (I found his name in some email I get from kde, announcing things like interviews with the developers.) In a more recent email of the same type, I found an interview with the developer of some other KDE product that apparently was released earlier but not updated recently, and so has not been in the recent releases. It is KHotKeys, see http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/khotkeys/, and the developer is [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if we could do anything to encourage him to complete it that would be great. Randy Kramer
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