Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 28. Oct 2004, at 23:12, Drew McLellan wrote:
But do you not see how it's confusing that paste works differently depending on how the selection was made before the copy?
Well, you did seem to know that the paste was different because you'd done a different type of copy!?! so as of such, it wasn't confusing to you, you just didn't know how to disable an unwanted feature.
Generally I try to make the default behavior the one that is what I think is used the most, and in this case this is "insert as columns", and I need more than one example to change my mind ;)
Additionally there is the thing about having a rather easy workaround for the default behavior (insert empty lines before pasting), which does not require one to learn a new qualifier, which would be the case, if the default was "insert as stream" and the opposite was needed.
I only knew it was different because it screwed up my file. I honestly thought it was a bug it broke so bad. Not because the feature is bad (I really like the feature now I understand it) but because it's replacing the default behavior.
The 'rather easy workaround' took me 4 or 5 attempts before I'd inserted enough spaces. It's a productivity killer.
If this really *has* to be the default, *please* include a shortcut to the correct pasting behavior too.
drew.