From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:22:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Subversion-style incrementing revision numbers
Message-ID: <20060920182203.GS8259@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200609201928.46024.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Dear diary, on Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:28:45PM CEST, I got a letter
where Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> said that...
> Typing those numbers is really insane, so the idea never occurred to me. Most 
> environments have simple methods to copy and paste strings using a clipboard,
> even in a console. So typically you can left-doubleclick on a string and paste 
> with the middle button in *nix like systems (right button in cygwin/windows 
> command line).

  ...which is certainly appealing for the Plan9 fans, but I'm not so
excited from having to grab my mouse all the time. :-) That said, typing
just the few leading digits is not really that painful.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
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