Supply condition in function call

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 08:19 pm, Ian Kelly wrote:

> I've never been a fan of the primary selection style anyway. Copying
> text is conceptually an action. Selecting text is how one indicates
> the target of an action; conceptually it is not an action itself and
> shouldn't cause an action to be performed. It leads to muddled
> processes like "highlight this text, paste it there, highlight that
> text, delete it, paste in the replacement text from before -- oops, I
> accidentally pasted back in the text that I just deleted instead."

Everything you say is absolutely correct. And yet middle-click paste is so
convenient when it works that I all but cry from frustration when I find an
application that doesn't support it.



-- 
Steven