I've been lurking on this list for years, now I'm breaking my silence to say I like this idea.
Cheers Tom On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 21:24 Johannes Thrän, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to spark a little improvement to the 'standard' regarding PRIMARY > buffer copy-paste behaviour (aka middle mouse button paste, aka selection > buffer). > > One of the reasons why many consider middle mouse paste useless is, that > one can't replace currently selected text with middle mouse paste. > This could be possible though, if we'd sharpen (not change) the > recommended behaviour like this: > - the PRIMARY buffer is only updated on left button up events > - a text selection is replaced by the contents of the PRIMARY buffer when > a middle click is registered within it > > To 'paste over' a text selection, one would have to: mark, hold click left > mouse, middle click. > > I know that sounds awkward and middle mouse paste is considered legacy by > many. But still many use it, it was ported to wayland. We can as well try > to make the behaviour more useful. > I propose above concretization to the de facto copy-paste standard found > here: > > > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/clipboards-spec/clipboards-latest.txt > > I tried said 'paste over' maneuver in a few common applications. Almost > all of them behaved differently :). So no silently agreed upon behaviour > would be broken. > If these changes make it to the document, I try to help implementing it in > some widgets. > > What do you think? > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >
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