Re: Dragging from URL icon

In message <58d82e7635Stuartlists@orpheusinternet.co.uk>
lists <Stuartlists@orpheusinternet.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <20a91ad858.bryan@helpful-demon.co.uk>,
> Bryan Hogan <netsurf@helpful-demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > > Copy and Paste hasn't worked properly in NetSurf for ages.
>
> > You might need to be just a *little* bit more specific than that if
> > you actually want anything done about it.
>
> > Although in my experience, cut and paste works fine, I'm regularly
> > using it.
>
> Copy and paste:
>
> Drag cursor along text to mark it, Hit CTRL-C, place curser where
> text is required, CTRL-V
>
> You can no longer mark the text. When you try you end up with a funny
> little square which you have to drag into your document and it lands
> up wherever you happen to have left the cursor, which invariably
> isn't where you want it placed.
>
> This is contrary to every other copy operation in RISC OS or, as far
> as I am aware Windows either, which is why I say it doesn't work
> properly, i.e. as it should.

I just tried that on my NetSurf #5223 and it worked fine to copy text
from a web page into zap (except using Ctrl-Y on zap rather than
Ctrl-V).

I may be trying to do something different to what you meant, but if so
your description wasn't as clear as it needs to be.

--
Nick Roberts tigger @ orpheusinternet.co.uk

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which
can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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