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From: Jim on 11 Jun 2010 02:14
The standard [Cut][Copy][Paste] controls need one more - [Delete]. Works
like [Cut] but doesn't overwrite the contents of the clipboard.

When replying to a long usenet post and you only want to quote a small
part of it, and you want to paste in a quotation from the web, you
currently have to go to the web, copy the url (or text) onto the
clipboard, go back into Newstap, hit the Followup button, then
laboriously delete all the bits you don't want by holding down the
delete key. If you just select large parts and hit cut, you overwrite
your clipboard and have to go back to square one.

Jim
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From: Ian McCall on 11 Jun 2010 02:20
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>
> When replying to a long usenet post and you only want to quote a small
> part of it...

To be fair this is also partly a weakness of Newstap. I want to
highlight the bit to be qouted and hit reply, not have to hit reply and
then manually trim everything.

Cheers,
Ian
From: Jim on 11 Jun 2010 02:26
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:

> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
> >
> > When replying to a long usenet post and you only want to quote a small
> > part of it...
>
> To be fair this is also partly a weakness of Newstap. I want to
> highlight the bit to be qouted and hit reply, not have to hit reply and
> then manually trim everything.

Fair point, but it might be better supported at the OS level if it could
conceivable be used in more than one app.

Jim
--
"Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good
product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious
understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some
slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Chris Ridd on 11 Jun 2010 02:30
On 2010-06-11 07:26:40 +0100, Jim said:

> Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
>
>> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When replying to a long usenet post and you only want to quote a small
>>> part of it...
>>
>> To be fair this is also partly a weakness of Newstap. I want to
>> highlight the bit to be qouted and hit reply, not have to hit reply and
>> then manually trim everything.
>
> Fair point, but it might be better supported at the OS level if it could
> conceivable be used in more than one app.

Doesn't the backspace key on the virtual keyboard work with selections?

--
Chris

From: Jim on 11 Jun 2010 03:33
On 2010-06-11, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote:
>>> highlight the bit to be qouted and hit reply, not have to hit reply and
>>> then manually trim everything.
>>
>> Fair point, but it might be better supported at the OS level if it could
>> conceivable be used in more than one app.
>
> Doesn't the backspace key on the virtual keyboard work with selections?

[checks]

Ah.

Er.


*cough*

Nothing to see here, move along.

(yes, it does. How stupid do _I_ feel now?)
Jim
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