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MikeMcDermott1-Visitor
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March 18, 2013
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copy/paste

  • March 18, 2013
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One of the first things I've tried to do with prime is to copy part of an equation with the right mouse button. As far as I can tell, you have to use cntrl-c to do this, but it's not as easy. Shouldn't all software allow you to copy using the mouse?

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Ninetrees3-Newcomer
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March 18, 2013

I agree. OTOH, I frequently ride with one hand on the mouse and the other over the ctrl-x,c,v key combo, just so that I can do this. I find the r-click, select Copy, go somewhere, [select paste over if appropriate], r-click, select Paste...to be bulky. In fact, in my text editor I have installed keyboard macros to do all that so that my hands don't have to leave the kbd.

On a brighter note, in the past I have noted that we could not

a) hightlight something and ENTER new something that overwrote it, and now we can in both text and math. +3

b) hightlight something and PASTE new something that overwrote it, and now we can in both text and math. +3

I really use those a lot.

~R~

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MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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March 20, 2013

Highlight the region and right click copy and then paste. It works, I do not see the issue.

Mike

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Ninetrees3-Newcomer
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March 20, 2013

Not sure I understand your reply. In my post, I said "and now we can in both text and math. +3", trying to show how much this feature is worth in productivity...???

~R~

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