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Re: What do you know? Snit actually saved the day for Moi.

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On 5/17/16, 4:55 AM, in article
93aa4058-950c-4331-8045-45f59f2f2ca1@googlegroups.com, "John Gohde"
<john.h.gohde@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 11:39:14 PM UTC-4, Snit wrote:
>> On 5/16/16, 8:05 PM, in article
>> ca59288c-0a57-4541-9608-5a46ceb11a74@googlegroups.com, "John Gohde"
>> <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Monday, May 16, 2016 at 9:10:22 PM UTC-4, Snit wrote:
>>>> On 5/16/16, 5:40 PM, in article
>>>> caa3715a-d6b1-4ad4-8720-40fd1cb92f5c@googlegroups.com, "John Gohde"
>>>> <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> ... 
>>>>>>> I don't know. I do try to move around by scrolling the wheel on my
>>>>>>> mouse.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I shall take a look at turning that feature off.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> I would suggest it. I know a lot of people like the feature but to me it
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> like the damned clicking on a track pad. When you want to move you end up
>>>>>> clicking accidently.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anyway, just a thought on a possible cause of the problem... let me know
>>>>>> if
>>>>>> it turns out that is what is causing it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was not aware of this mouse pasting feature, which supposedly can be
>>>>> traced
>>>>> back to UNIX. On the face of it, it seems to be a rather insane feature.
>>>>> But,
>>>>> what do I know?
>>>> 
>>>> So like it... me, I do not. I do use my middle mouse button for all sorts
>>>> of
>>>> other things though - programmed to do what I want in different programs.
>>>> 
>>>>> You cannot turn the feature off, but Moi came across a terminal script
>>>>> that
>>>>> apparently turned this feature off, more or less. From my testing of this
>>>>> mouse pasting feature, the terminal script appears to have worked.
>>>> 
>>>> One thing I like on my system is how I can control these things so heavily.
>>>> 
>>>> <https://youtu.be/sdSiYE7lbQI>
>>>> 
>>>>> In addition, I turned the sensitivity of my mouse way down.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Moi' world's view has been shaken to the core by Snit.  Thanks for the
>>>>> tip,
>>>>> Bud. ONLY time will tell if this solves my Bracket problem.
>>>> 
>>>> Happy to help... at its best THIS is what COLA should be about.
>>> 
>>> To Moi, the mouse on a PC has ONLY two buttons. About all that I can
>>> master is the right click.
>> 
>> And that is fine. For me I like mine with more buttons:
> 
> That is what the keyboard is there for, Putz!!!!

My keyboard has buttons, too. :)

With the next and previous, different programs use different keystrokes...
and while it would be nice if there was a standard even then sometimes I
want next / previous tabs, and sometimes I want next and previous message...
so I would still want it to be configurable. I *could* also alter the
keybindings on the programs... but that is more work and I like using the
mouse.

Choice is good.

> People who misuse their tools should be shot, at dawn.
> 
> The mouse is there for traversing the desktop and webpage, as well as for
> bring up the right click menu.  Definitely not for pasting text.  Of course,
> if you happen to be on drugs ... all things are possible.

I do not like the middle-click copy / paste. I could set mine up like that
if I wanted... but personally I agree with you and hate that setup.

I do have press-scroll to resize windows as I like them. Press+Scroll Up is
maximized, Press+Scroll Down is set to my "preferred" size for most things.

> At the very least you should be able to select what you want the mouse wheel
> and other buttons to be used for. I went through a 3-button mouse phase in
> Windows. Pretty much a total waste ...

As I showed, I can configure my mouse heavily.

> With all the overkill options in Mint, you would think it would be there, but
> it clearly is not.
> 
> Oops, the pasting problem might still be there ... What a retarded feature of
> Linux is all that I can say.

It is absurd that there is no easy way to turn the damn thing off.

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  Re: Brackets Update owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-05-16 15:06 +0000
    Re: Brackets Update John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 16:29 -0700
      Re: Brackets Update Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-16 16:34 -0700
        Re: Brackets Update John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 16:42 -0700
          Re: Brackets Update Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-16 17:01 -0700
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              Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-16 18:10 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 20:05 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-16 20:39 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 04:55 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-17 10:27 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 21:23 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 04:57 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 08:19 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 08:20 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-17 10:23 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-17 12:29 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2016-05-17 20:20 -0400
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-17 17:40 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 11:06 -0700
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                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 17:40 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 18:15 -0700
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-05-17 04:49 +0000
                Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-16 21:56 -0700
              Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 18:17 -0700
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              Re: What do you know?  Snit actually saved the day for Moi. Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-05-17 08:13 +0200
  Re: Brackets Update Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-16 10:07 -0700
    Re: Brackets Update Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-05-16 19:13 +0200
      Re: Brackets Update chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-05-16 12:55 -0500
        Re: Brackets Update Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-16 11:04 -0700
      Re: Brackets Update Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 11:01 -0700
        Re: Brackets Update John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 16:32 -0700
          Re: Brackets Update Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 16:58 -0700
      Re: Brackets Update owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-05-16 18:21 +0000
        Re: Brackets Update Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 11:39 -0700
          Re: Brackets Update owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2016-05-16 19:14 +0000
            Re: Brackets Update Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-05-16 23:27 +0200
              Re: Brackets Update Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-16 15:14 -0700
  Re: Brackets Update John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 06:49 -0700
    Re: Brackets Update Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 11:19 -0700
      Re: Brackets Update John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 13:07 -0700
        Re: Brackets Update Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-18 13:37 -0700
        Re: Brackets Update Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-18 15:08 -0700
          Re: Brackets Update tmelmosfire <tmelmosfire@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 08:43 -0700
            Re: Brackets Update Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-05-19 08:47 -0700
              Re: Brackets Update Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-05-19 09:02 -0700
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