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From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 Mar 2010 06:41 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: [snip] > It's hard to say why. I assume that it's because of a miss-press, but > there have been times when I was certain that I performed the copy > operation without error. There's no doubt that I'm operating the machinery correctly. The problem is that the machinery is not operating correctly. After all, I never had this problem with System 6.0.7-MacOS 7.6.1 or MacOS 9.0.4; I first met it when I started using MacOS X. What amazes me is that even with a simple technical query, even then I get replies that are little more than personal abuse. There's a reason I have the Firth creature killfiled... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 Mar 2010 06:41 Ric <infobubble(a)gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > I have had times when the paste buffer didn't have what I thought it > should do in it, but it's rare, it's not repeastable, and I've always > assumed I've just not quite pressed apple-C. I've made very very sure that I've activated the controls. And quite often, even a second or third attempt doesn't do the trick. <shrug> I never saw the problem before MacOS X. It's a pain. Some apps seem more prone to it than others - would you be surprised to hear that Firefox is particularly bad for `copy working as expected'? At least, it is here. And that's Firefox 3.6 and MacOS X 10.6.2 - latest versions, all recent updates applied (I hope). Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jim on 18 Mar 2010 06:47 On 2010-03-18, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> >> There's a thread on cocoa-dev at the moment which suggests that Firefox >> (or just the plugins?) doesn't handle the clipboard entirely properly. > > I'd come to a similar conclusion myself. > That would explain why I've never (knowingly) seen it - I very, very rarely use Firefox. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "[Cocaine] is addictive and probably quite bad for you if you have too much. But the same applies to Battenburg cake, and no one seems to freak out about that, do they?" The Daily Mash
From: Jim on 18 Mar 2010 06:55 On 2010-03-18, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> > > I simply don't see what you are reporting here- and I frequently copy >> > > text or urls. >> > >> > Of course, Peter, of course. >> > >> > I knew it always worked perfectly for *YOU*, things always do. >> > >> > You never meet the problems that afflict everyone else. >> >> Well _I've_ never met this problem either. Peter's qustion about how you >> activate the copy was a good one. It's a shame you couldn't see that. > > It's a shame that Peter had to use his usual sneering approach, I > reckon. He wasn't sneering at you. In fact, *no-one* here sneers at you. He provided a data point, namely that he doesn't see it. Neither do I. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "[Cocaine] is addictive and probably quite bad for you if you have too much. But the same applies to Battenburg cake, and no one seems to freak out about that, do they?" The Daily Mash
From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 Mar 2010 07:10
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> > > I simply don't see what you are reporting here- and I frequently copy > >> > > text or urls. > >> > > >> > Of course, Peter, of course. > >> > > >> > I knew it always worked perfectly for *YOU*, things always do. > >> > > >> > You never meet the problems that afflict everyone else. > >> > >> Well _I've_ never met this problem either. Peter's qustion about how you > >> activate the copy was a good one. It's a shame you couldn't see that. > > > > It's a shame that Peter had to use his usual sneering approach, I > > reckon. > > He wasn't sneering at you. In fact, *no-one* here sneers at you. Nonsense. [snip] Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |