Re: cut-and-paste in gnome-terminal

[Kenny Hitt <kenny hittsjunk net>]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:55:36PM +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> >
> While for some applications with poor keyboard navigation this may make 
> sense, I disagree with Peter in the context of the original question, 
> which was about text cut-and-paste.  It makes much more sense to use the 
> AccessibleText APIs (via orca or gnopernicus) than to manipulate the 
> mouse - we have excellent ability to both extract text using 
> AccessibleText, and edit text, via AccessibleEditableText, without 
> having to second-guess the exact mouse actions required to select text.
> 
> There are numerous applications in which selectable text is difficult or 
> impossible to select via the keyboard.  The text APIs give us a reliable 
> way of both selecting the text (when that's what's necessary) and 
> copying the text (when what we really want is cut-and-paste), so I think 
> having orca and gnopernicus implement their own text "clipboard" would 
> be a very powerful feature.
> 

Hi.  I have to agree with you.  A few years ago, speakup added a paste
feature.  I don't know how I could work in the text console without it.
I've been trying to do more things in Gnome, but I end up back in the
text console because of features like speakup's paste.

          Kenny