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The point is to get the text from one field of an applications GUI, to another.
hold down ctrl, left-mousedown on the _background_ of a field which contains text you wish to copy, and drag to another field. Mouse-up, and the target field's contents are replaced.
If the user does ctrl-shift-left_mousedown,
then the contents of the target field is augmentented depending on the location of the cursor, e.g. TARGE<moved text>T
This would save time. The above procedure avoids: select, copy, select, paste - if the target field is occupied.
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Nice. Isn't this just a request for a feature not currently found on your computer? |
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I'm betting earwig uses only one
windowing operating system. Different
OSes have different visual syntax. You may
find that something similar to what you
want already exists in another OS. |
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If you grab and drag a field's contents,
surely all the cows will fall over? |
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The idea has nothing to do with my Windows Manager, it belongs to a UI space. This type of sugar doesn't warrant an OS switch or even a WM switch. Thanks for your suggestion. |
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you could try to implement this feature using several Macro scripts while using the CTRL-left mnouse key as macro activation trigger |
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I think you misunderstand me, earwig. I'm
not suggesting that you switch operating
systems to get this feature, merely that it
might
not be a such a new idea for users of a
different
OS. |
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[BB] Shhh! - we don't want everyone to know! |
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Tripple click to select all of the text in the field/window. |
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Mouse to the target field/window. |
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