At 4:15 PM -0800 2/22/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> > >  Good.  I approve.  Now, fix the @#$%^ paste design flaw and
>> > >  I'll try using it again!
...
>However, in QCTERM, paste is broken.  Okay...it's correctly written to a
>bad design.  You pick...the result is the same: if you <paste> in QCTERM,
>you get:
>    run foo.pub; info="<return>
>
>I.e....partial-paste is broken, as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

This, for me, is a show-stopper. I do partial line pastes so frequently
that I won't even consider using QCTERM as long is this is broken.


>Now, I don't particularly care how many people in New Mexico think it should
>work the way it does now in QCTERM.  They're all wrong.
>Just like the majority of the world was wrong when they thought the
>world was flat, or  was supported on the back of a giant turtle...

...or thought that 2000-01-01 was the beginning of a new millennium.


>Paste of a partial line is *IMPORTANT*.  It damn well better work right.
>
>If it *doesn't* work right, it should at least work in a manner that
>minimizes mistakes.  Unconditionally appending a <return> leads to mistakes.


How about a new configuration option:

     PasteReturn = False

Then, users in New Mexico who want QCTERM to behave the way it currently
does could simply change the default value from False to True.


>How often do you paste a partial-line copy (or cut)?

Many times, every day.

>...of those times, how often do you want a <return> at the end of the paste?

Never.


At 6:06 PM -0700 2/22/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>...  And there
>should be a way to copy a whole line *without* the <return> (although it
>would also be nice to be able to optionally pick up the return
>somehow).  It works under Xterm on the fvwm2 window manager I find myself
>using lately.

In that other emulator, Reflection, either is possible. I can hilite an
entire line, or part of a line, and paste it without an implied return,
allowing me to type more text if I desire. Or, I can hilite an entire line
and drag down to the beginning of the next line. That picks up the return
as well, so that when I paste it I get the return. The best of both worlds.


Barry Lake                                 [log in to unmask]
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