Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare

[David Cary Hart]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:02:20 -0500, Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell at gmail.com> opined:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 11:53 -0400, Rickey Moore wrote:
> 
> > > It is obviously up to the application developers to decide
> > > which key bindings they want to support in which context. It is
> > > up to the desktop
> > > style guides to define what should work. The Gnome apps I'm
> > > using behave
> > > as expected, and support both clipboards. In some cases,
> > > alternative keyboard shortcuts must be used (like SHIFT-^C),
> > > e.g. in a terminal window running a shell - for obvious reasons.
> > 
> > Well, there you go. With better standards that are recognized and
> > honored, a developer won't be in the position of power and
> > authority to 'decide' which keybindings they use. It would be a
> > standard, with no deviations. 
> 
> What?  What does a new standard mean to something you've already
> been using for the last 30 years?  For me, it would mean that
> the new standard would be ignored.  
> 
> 
> > > "Cut, Copy, Paste Nightmare"? Give me a break!
> > And, as has been posted, it -is- a nightmare for some, including
> > the likes of jdow, Tim, myself and others.
> 
> Yet, none of them have bothered to post where the right-mouse
> cut/paste menu choices fail to work as expected.
> 
This issue is most troublesome because select is captured. Therefore,
in some applications, you cannot select what you want to replace
because the selected text-to-be replaced becomes the 
text-that-you-want-to-replace-it-with. -;) In some applications
neither ctrl-c nor ctrl-v work at all.

I would be very happy if ctrls c, x and v would work the way they are
expected to work across the board. That the functionality seems to
vary among applications (along with right-click, middle-click and
shift-insert) makes life a whole lot more complicated than it should
be. Sometimes, it is rather frustrating if you are moving text 
around a great deal between applications and sometimes the command
line.
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