Bug or feature? or: Don't I love the mechanics of expansion

Ben Rubinstein benr_mc at cogapp.com
Wed Mar 19 08:02:00 EST 2003


on 17/3/03 1:42 am, Victor Eijkhout wrote

> Reading the man page for "send". It says (I couldn't manage to
> cut/paste from the dictionary. is that possible?)

Geoff's responded on your main point, explaining how what looks like runaway
expansion is actually quite reasonable and predictable.  But in answer to
your question: hold down the option (alt) key and run the mouse over the
text you want to grab: it will be placed in your clipboard.

It isn't intuitive, but it's handy and it works!

(It's documented in the 'tips' stack - not sure if it's anywhere else.  I
find that it's worth flipping all the way through the tips stack every now
and then - something usually catches my eye that wasn't relevant to me the
last time, but is now.  Also, I have it set to show me a tip once a day -
that's often enough to be useful, but not so often it's annoying if I'm
having a bad day..)

regards,
 
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