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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 09:35:20 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Supply condition in function call
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On 28Mar2015 20:57, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:19 pm, Ian Kelly wrote:
>> I've never been a fan of the primary selection style anyway. Copying
>> text is conceptually an action. Selecting text is how one indicates
>> the target of an action; conceptually it is not an action itself and
>> shouldn't cause an action to be performed. It leads to muddled
>> processes like "highlight this text, paste it there, highlight that
>> text, delete it, paste in the replacement text from before -- oops, I
>> accidentally pasted back in the text that I just deleted instead."
>
>Everything you say is absolutely correct. And yet middle-click paste is so
>convenient when it works that I all but cry from frustration when I find an
>application that doesn't support it.

In xterm and I think several other X11 terminals, Shift-Insert pastes. I found 
that _way_ more convenient than middle click. The mouse is not your friend.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

Unix is user-friendly. It's just picky about who its friends are.