Stan Sieler wrote:
...
> I'd copied just "purge foo.fum", intending to paste and then type ".B" ..
> but, instead, I lost foo.fum!   (Sure, copying a single more character would
> have prevented the loss...in *this* case.)
>
> How often do you paste a partial-line copy (or cut)?

Today I was designing a web page and I did it about 50 times over and over
of the a few different copies - it would have been "really" aggravating if
I'd had to go delete a <return> each time!

While we're complaining - when did Gates & Co change highlighting text to
insist on selecting the nearest angle bracket??  instead of just exactly
what you highlight?  I was trying to copy part of an HTML tag, but not the
final ">" and it wouldn't let me unless there was a space in front of the
">". (This was in wordpad.)

>
> ...of those times, how often do you want a <return> at the end of the paste?
>
>    100% of the time?  You're fooling yourself.

maybe a quarter of the time at most?

>
>    0% of the time?  Ditto.
>
> The answer lies between the two extremes.  But...and this is important...
> you can easily hit <return>.  It's a big key!  It's real hard to
> hit the "undo the @#$%^& <return>" key...not all keyboards have that one!

some techniques (depending upon the editor):
<end><delete>
or
<down><home><backspace>
or
j [qedit or vi or maybe hpedit??]

How does one do this in quad or hpedit?

>
> SS
> Stan Sieler                                           [log in to unmask]
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Richard 'having qedit withdrawal getting used to quad or hpedit' Gambrell


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