Cut Copy and Paste!

[Jeffrey Pyne]

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