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Re: ?UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE?

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From: snicks
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 00:00
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In <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
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>This is without a doubt one of the best and nicest features I have seen.  Please keep on experimenting.  Thanks.
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From: snicks@ibm.net
Subject: Re: ?UNDOCUMENTED FEATURE?
Date: 1997/02/02
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