[TxMt] Rectangular selections paste badly

[Drew McLellan]

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.