Re: [Evolution] Small "quirklets" in Evolution 1.0.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:16, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 09:08, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 16:47, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> > > 2. When reading messages, I find that I can't select and cut/copy text. 
> > > REALLY limiting, when you're trying to cut-and-paste from an email
> > > message into something else.
> > are you sure you can't? Maybe that's because you're using the windows
> > way of doing it. If you use the X way (select with the mouse to copy and
> > press the middle mouse button to paste) it should work. It does for me.
>
> Likely that's the problem.  Forgot about implict cut/paste.  THe only
> issue I had with it is really, I guess, that there are times (for
> example, when composing the messages) that you DO have a drop-down menu
> for that.  Consistency (or lack thereof) I guess is what I'm getting at.

well, it's consistent with how the rest of X applications work. The
CTRL-C/CTRL-V keybindings (or menu items) are something that we
inherited from windows, AFAIK.

cheers
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>