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Re: ?UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE?

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From: Mike Dietz
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:00
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In message <c1.0.2Dt6qC$027@news.glassnet.com> - chumble@usenet.glassnet.com
writes:
:>
:>
:>See the line below..?..   WHILE READING THIS... with LH mouse button, highlight
:>it by dragging with the LH mousebutton (D'clicking won't play).
:>
:>
:>http://www.somewhere.that.looks.interesting.com/
:>
:>
:>Still got the mousebutton held down..?..still highlighted..?  Good.  Now tap
:>the RH mouse button.
:>
:>OK...now bring up an URL notebook... a command line window, the E editor.. whatever.
:>
:>Position the cursor with the RH mousebutton and tap the LH mousebutton.
:>
:>Has this feature been here all along....? (I recall something in NPSWPS which
:>I was ABOUT to reinstall for this feature....)
:>
:>
:>I'm running Warp 4 without any addons....
:>
:>Now...  the question is.. are there any more...?
:>
:>
:>Clive
:>
:>PS: If my experience is/was due to particulars to my system, sock colour etc
:>
:>The  Highlight with LH MB and tap RH MB copied the selected text to my clipboard.
:>The  Position with RH MB and tap LH MB pasted at that point.
:>
:>It seems to work everywhere (so long as the app doesn't intercept the mousebuttons
:>for itself.. EPM, for one).
:>
:>
:>-- 
:>----------------------------------------------------------------------
:>              Clive Humble of Artists in Glass, England.
:> Desk: chumble@artin.glassnet.com  Home: chumble@agile.glassnet.com
:>  "Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
:>   Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge ?"      - T.S.Elliot
:>----------------------------------------------------------------------
:>

Worked for me too,  I don't know how you caught that feature, but congrats !!!


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Subject: Re: ?UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE?
Date: 1997/01/30
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