On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 12:51, Steven M. Klass wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I love the middle paste button of a mouse. I am fanatical about it. But I
> don't know how to do the following.
>
> Rumaging through some email, I come upon a web page link that I want to
> follow. (http://www.google.com). I highlight the link and my objective is
> to paste it (using the middle mouse button (MMB)) into my browser's goto
> place. Now I usually just paste (MMB) behind the current address and then
> delete the old address. Is there a faster way of doing this, or has someone
> created a neat way to do this?
>
> I would think that someone created a way to like hold the control key
> highlight the existing text and paste and viola the new text replaces the
> old. Somebody had to do something like this.
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maybe it's because I use redhat & KDE but I just click on the link in
the email and it opens a new mozilla window with the highlighted URL. I
expect any reasonably current OS to be able to do this.
Craig