Re: Copy-Paste between filemanager and document editor

[Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G bigfoot com>]

Jorg Rathlev wrote:
> Besides, Windows became even more unpredictable with Windows 2000 (compared
> to Win 9x, I don't know about NT 4): Dragging .exe files will usually
> move/copy them like any other file. If I try and go into the MS Office
> folder and drag excel.exe, it's going to create a shortcut. Dragging
> finder.exe (which is in the same folder!) works like any other file.
> Winword.exe again creates a shortcut. Might be based on registry entries or
> whatever - I have no clue. This *really* sucks.

This has me laughing.  Why?  Because MS *removed* some of the
unpredictability by making EXEs be handled like any other file.  Suddenly,
to those who grew up with the 5 or 8 different behaviours depending on mime
type, time of day, phase of moon, etc, explorer drag actions, it seems
"un-intuitive" .. 

This alone should help convince any fence sitters out that their ONE AND
ONLY ONE operation should be the default REGARDLESS OF ANYTHING ELSE so that
we can maintain some kind of consistency.

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