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Nebetsu

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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 08-05-06 06:13 PM Link | Quote
You know how in Linux you can select something and paste it using the middle mouse button? Well how do I enable that in Windows? There are some things that I just need to do in Windows and every time I use it, that always screws me up.
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Posted on 08-05-06 08:21 PM Link | Quote
Well, with the command prompt, you have to right click, select mark, then you can select a region to copy. Then use right-click, l paste...

However, the other thing you could do is download Cygwin and use it to give you a linux-style shell...
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Posted on 08-05-06 09:28 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Nebetsu
You know how in Linux you can select something and paste it using the middle mouse button? Well how do I enable that in Windows? There are some things that I just need to do in Windows and every time I use it, that always screws me up.

I think TweakUI (old Windows control panel applet... not sure if it's still around) had an option for enabling X11-style focus tracking (like most (if not, all) X11 windowmanagers.)
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 08-05-06 09:44 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by HydraPheetz
Originally posted by Nebetsu
You know how in Linux you can select something and paste it using the middle mouse button? Well how do I enable that in Windows? There are some things that I just need to do in Windows and every time I use it, that always screws me up.

I think TweakUI (old Windows control panel applet... not sure if it's still around) had an option for enabling X11-style focus tracking (like most (if not, all) X11 windowmanagers.)

I downloaded it and it doesn't have the copy and paste things. Just that focus thing, which I always turn off when I'm in Linux anyways. It has some other interesting settings though. It's a not bad find.
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Since: 12-09-05
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Posted on 08-05-06 10:11 PM Link | Quote
with autohotkey you can program substitutions for certain actions, I don't doubt that you can turn a middle click into a ctrl+v action in editable areas instead. On a fairly negligible downside though, you'll have to have your autohotkey background program running in the meantime, so it's not like something embedded into windows.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 08-06-06 12:24 AM Link | Quote
What about the thing where things that I select get automatically copied to the clipboard?
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Posted on 08-06-06 01:55 AM Link | Quote
Quite simply, Windows works with selections in a vastly different way than 99% of X11 programs. Unless the programs are specifically designed to act like the X11 style of selection and pasting (eg, Cygwin/X or PuTTY), you're out of luck.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 08-06-06 03:25 AM Link | Quote
Damn... Because I'm so used to it that I keep doing it in Windows. Repeatedly.
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Posted on 08-07-06 05:05 AM Link | Quote
Well, if ou decided to try autohotkey, you might want to try their forums, becuse I checked the basic documentation, and I couldn't see any way of executing an auto-copy like that.

I'm glad ubuntu or windows doesn't do that on default, that would drive me nuts.
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Since: 11-17-05
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Posted on 08-07-06 03:16 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Zer0wned
Well, if ou decided to try autohotkey, you might want to try their forums, becuse I checked the basic documentation, and I couldn't see any way of executing an auto-copy like that.

I'm glad ubuntu or windows doesn't do that on default, that would drive me nuts.


Ubuntu DOES do that on default. Select something and hit your middle mouse button somewhere. If it doesn't work, it means that you don't have your middle mouse button properly configured.
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Since: 12-09-05
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Posted on 08-07-06 07:54 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Nebetsu
Originally posted by Zer0wned
Well, if ou decided to try autohotkey, you might want to try their forums, becuse I checked the basic documentation, and I couldn't see any way of executing an auto-copy like that.

I'm glad ubuntu or windows doesn't do that on default, that would drive me nuts.


Ubuntu DOES do that on default. Select something and hit your middle mouse button somewhere. If it doesn't work, it means that you don't have your middle mouse button properly configured.

Edit: actually, wait, is this like a seperate clipboard you're talking about? I was thinking that you meant that the contents of a ctrl-c copy would be overwritten by highlighting something. I've never noticed that behavior if that's the case.

(edited by Zer0wned on 08-07-06 07:01 PM)
(edited by Zer0wned on 08-07-06 07:05 PM)
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Posted on 08-07-06 08:09 PM Link | Quote
X.org has two clipboards, the selection board that copies automatically what you select, and is pasted through the middle mouse button. Then there's a static clipboard that happens by selecting text and using a manual copy command (eg, Ctrl-C, Edit->Copy, other similar stuff). Both do not normally affect each other (unless you have a middle-man application for clipboards; KDE still has Klipper, GNOME used to have one but the developer decided that the X11 clipboard needs repair at the server and not as a middle-man program).

It's a bit confusing to Windows users, but it's really not hard to understand. I prefer the X11 way to the Windows way, even.
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Since: 12-09-05
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Posted on 08-07-06 08:47 PM Link | Quote
ah, alright, that makes a lot of sense. and actually, since they don't conflict with each other that's pretty cool.

There's a lot of hotkeys and tricks on every platform, and yet I have still not found any sort of a tell-all guide to these damned things, seems like you just kinda have to figure them out by word of mouth, trial and error, or by an occaisional very incomplete guide to hotkeys.
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