On Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:52 PM, Steven M. Klass wrote:
> 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?
A technique I use fairly frequently is:
- Click-drag to select some text
- Click in the area where I want to paste the selected text (e.g. a browser
address bar or a text field in an HTML form)
- Hit CTRL-U to delete the text that's already in the area (KEWL!!)
- Middle-mouse to paste
> 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.
No to pick nits, but it's spelled "voila." :)
~Jeff
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