I just make a rectangular selection of a column about 20 lines long, and copied it to the clipboard.
Pasting this further down the document failed to create the extra space needed for the code being pasted, and effectively 'merged' the pasted code with the existing code following the insertion point.
Hard to explain. Will screen shot the steps if necessary.
drew.
On 28. okt 2004, at 11:44, Drew McLellan wrote:
I just make a rectangular selection of a column about 20 lines long, and copied it to the clipboard.
Pasting this further down the document failed to create the extra space needed for the code being pasted, and effectively 'merged' the pasted code with the existing code following the insertion point.
Hard to explain. Will screen shot the steps if necessary.
I think I know what you mean... pasting columnar selections, will paste it back the same way producing the merge you are talking about. This is on purpose and by design however. If you really need the extra space you will need to press enter a bit yourself beforehand. I suppose it could be useful in some circumstances with a paste that forced TM to ignore that it is in columnar mode.
Sune Foldager wrote:
On 28. okt 2004, at 11:44, Drew McLellan wrote:
I just make a rectangular selection of a column about 20 lines long, and copied it to the clipboard.
Pasting this further down the document failed to create the extra space needed for the code being pasted, and effectively 'merged' the pasted code with the existing code following the insertion point.
Hard to explain. Will screen shot the steps if necessary.
I think I know what you mean... pasting columnar selections, will paste it back the same way producing the merge you are talking about. This is on purpose and by design however. If you really need the extra space you will need to press enter a bit yourself beforehand. I suppose it could be useful in some circumstances with a paste that forced TM to ignore that it is in columnar mode.
I see - "broken by design" :)
I can see how this special paste mode could be very useful, but I don't think it should be the default. Everyone is familiar with how paste works - the code is placed at the insertion point, displacing everything that comes after it.
This cool merge paste trick should be some kind of "special paste".
I like it though!
drew.
On 28. Oct 2004, at 20:52, Drew McLellan wrote:
I can see how this special paste mode could be very useful, but I don't think it should be the default.
It's what I want 90% of the time. The reason for making it default is that you can easily work around it by first inserting empty lines -- it's not likewise possible to "obtain" the column-paste by workarounds.
I did at one time consider adding a qualifier to make a "regular paste", but cmd-v is already too overloaded with the clipboard history.
Kind regards Allan
Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 28. Oct 2004, at 20:52, Drew McLellan wrote:
I can see how this special paste mode could be very useful, but I don't think it should be the default.
It's what I want 90% of the time. The reason for making it default is that you can easily work around it by first inserting empty lines -- it's not likewise possible to "obtain" the column-paste by workarounds.
I did at one time consider adding a qualifier to make a "regular paste", but cmd-v is already too overloaded with the clipboard history.
But do you not see how it's confusing that paste works differently depending on how the selection was made before the copy?
That's a whole two steps away.
drew.
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.
Kind regards Allan
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.
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