Alex von Gluck wrote:
> > I was about to write a cynical comment, but I figured it may be much
> > more helpful to actually be constructive here :)
>
> I mean, my constructive position is was what improvement does mouse +
> clipboard interaction offer?
A lot. Every user will have their own preferences, I myself tend to use
the scrollwheel and do Visual selection with the mouse. Doing that with
the keyboard takes much more time.
> This all feels like when Gnome 3 decided to make the delete key "not
> delete files" in file manager because there were a few user complaints
> it was too easy to delete files. Gnome didn't document this change,
> and didn't document what key bindings to hit to actually delete files.
> After around 50 - 100 bug reports of being unable to delete files
> rolled in over a few years, we were able to finally tie them together
> to make a case about how dumb of a change was.
> I honestly feel like this fits the same profile.
I don't see it that way. Good UX practice learns that if some users
accidentally press the wrong key, instead of making that key do nothing
or put up an annoying dialog, there should be a way to revert the
action. I do not see a relation with a not working mouse.
> A change for change's sake with no real improvement to UX.
Making the mouse work in a text editor is certainly a UX improvement.
> I've personally two different hardened sysadmins at work complain
> about the "broken paste" in vim,
What do you mean? I thought we were talking about using the mouse. And
the mouse is often used for pasting (typing "+p also works though). Can
you be specific about what you are referring to?
> and ran into a new linux / vim user asking how to paste where his
> cursor was while in insert mode.
CTRL-R +. That's not obvious though, using the middle mouse button is.
Unless the user comes from MS-Windows, then CTRL-V would do it, but you
need to configure Vim for that.
> It's kind of frustrating from all sides. Do a quick search for "vim
> disable mouse paste" and you get a million results of people trying to
> figure out how to turn this off:
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