How do you paste over a text box?

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Like when you are online shopping or researching. Text boxes are used
for searching. If you have something in the clipboard and want to
overwrite the contents of a text box, do you do this?

click in the text box
press End to move to the end of the line
hold Shift and press Home to select the line
paste

Triple clicking might select the line, I guess depending on the
browser.
 
John said:
John Doe wrote:


If you click in the text box any text already there becomes
high-lighted. Just press <CTRL>V to replace the high-lighted
text with whatever text is in the clipboard.

The high-light part is standard Windows behavior but of course
that all assumes that the application (browser or whatever)
follows Windows standards, it doesn't have to, but it makes it a
whole lot easier to use the app if it does.
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That might help, but Internet Explorer doesn't. Neither does
Firefox, or Netflix, or YouTube. The only exception to the
anti-rule that I see is the address bar.

Apparently most do abide by the triple click rule (even Xnews).
Notepad does not (no surprise).


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John Doe said:
Like when you are online shopping or researching. Text boxes are used
for searching. If you have something in the clipboard and want to
overwrite the contents of a text box, do you do this?

click in the text box
press End to move to the end of the line
hold Shift and press Home to select the line
paste

Triple clicking might select the line, I guess depending on the
browser.
Click to expand...

Using IE8 or IE9 (depending on which PC I'm on), if it's more than one word in the search field, I usually click and
hold in the space to the right of the last word, drag to the beginning of the line, then right-click, paste. That's
pretty much the same thing you're doing without me using the keyboard.

Triple-clicking works well on Amazon, except that if the mouse is moved in the slightest during that process, it might
drop part of the field. I have a MS Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 on a 3M precision mouse pad with it set to a
fairly high sensitivity, so I have to be very steady to not move it during three clicks :-)
 
SC Tom said:
"John Doe" <jdoe usenetlove.invalid> wrote

Using IE8 or IE9 (depending on which PC I'm on), if it's more
than one word in the search field, I usually click and hold in
the space to the right of the last word, drag to the beginning
of the line, then right-click, paste. That's pretty much the
same thing you're doing without me using the keyboard.
Click to expand...

That works if the text field isn't full, if there is an open space
at the end.

What I do is utter a single syllable "pox".

"pox":#select line, paste
Mouse("left/5")+
Key("end/5,s-home/5")+
Key("c-v/10"),

I vaguely recall determining that to be more reliable than triple
clicking and pasting.

That might be the most frequently useful single syllable
script/macro that I use. It probably should be easier to do
manually with the keyboard and mouse, but apparently it isn't.
Triple-clicking works well on Amazon, except that if the mouse
is moved in the slightest during that process, it might drop
part of the field. I have a MS Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000
on a 3M precision mouse pad with it set to a fairly high
sensitivity, so I have to be very steady to not move it during
three clicks :-)
Click to expand...

Maybe someday Microsoft will innovate a "select line" button. Then
some decades after that, maybe even a "replace line" button.
 
If you click in the text box any text already there becomes
high-lighted. Just press <CTRL>V to replace the high-lighted text with
whatever text is in the clipboard.

The high-light part is standard Windows behavior but of course that all
assumes that the application (browser or whatever) follows Windows
standards, it doesn't have to, but it makes it a whole lot easier to use
the app if it does.

John
Click to expand...

If it doesn't become highlit/triple-clicking doeasn't work I've always found
that Ctrl+A then Ctrl+V works.
 
I didn't know about using '<CRL>A' if the text doesn't high-light. I
usually just click and hold at one end of the text and slide the mouse
pointer to the other end to high-light it all. But its easy to miss a
character or two using that method.

By the way does '<CRL>A' work in Linux as well? '<CRL>C' and '<CRL>V'
usually do.
Click to expand...

No idea - I've only played with a few distros and haven't got that far -
SIAS.
 
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