[josm-dev] JOSM Fail

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> Um, I don't understand your second sentence there. Do you mean that
>> the fix is to set the focus to the textfield rather than the button?
>> On Mac OS X it seems that the textfield isn't selected by default,
>> however if you click in the text field, and use the keyboard shortcut
>> to paste it will work.
>
> I *think* the problem is that there is a note in the text field saying
> "paste your url here", and when you focus the text field, that note gets
> selected which, on some platforms, replaces the paste buffer with "paste
> your url here", and in any case breaks pasting because you would have to
> delete it first. If the message "paste your url here" becomes a label
> above the text box, and the box remains empty, pasting should be a
> no-brainer.

Yes, that's exactly the issue, see http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2019