Re: Dragging from URL icon

In article <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.

Here using NS 5223 I can copy and paste without problems, I can also copy
and paste out of the URL bar.

But as Harriet notes, unlike in past times we cannot drag the URL out to
another place.

Dave

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Dave Triffid
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