🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, it's been at least three days since anybody at the
Canon Research Centre pissed and moaned about Open Windows,
so here's something about Open Look which is either a bug
or a feature.  You decide.

Cut/Copy/Paste works essentially the same under Open Look
as on the Mac or NeXT or under SunView, with one exception.
If you Copy some text into the buffer, then select some other
text, and Paste over top of it, the text you pasted over gets
copied to the buffer at the same time that it's replaced.
This is really annoying.  The typical case when I run into
this is in textedit (yes I use textedit and I'm not ashamed
so stop looking at me like that) where there's a word I want
to replace just a few times.  For example, say I have:

foo
bar
bar

and I want to change both the "bar"s to "foo".  On the other
systems, you could double click on foo, select Copy, then
double click on "bar", and select Paste.  This won't work
under Open Look, because when you Paste "foo" over "bar"
the first time, "bar" replaces "foo" in the buffer.
Is it supposed to do this?  I've never had a situation
where I wanted this behaviour rather than the other
more typical case.  Does anyone prefer it this way?
Is this the result of one of those Scientific Studies?

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 Mark Smith                                            smith@canon.co.uk
 Canon Research Centre Europe                   ..ukc!uos-ee!canon!smith
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