On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
ctrl-v must paste into the location of the cursor. So you just move your mouse with one hand and keep pressing ctrl-v with the other, lots of fun :)
Aha! A 'paint' or 'spraygun' mode.
My recollection is fuzzy (and I know I should check this but) in some programs either Duplicate or Paste (repeatedly) would place the new object sligthly diagonally offset from the original object.
A seperate SprayPaint tools sounds like fun, I recall toying with it Adobe Ill so it might be something people find genuinely useful too (from a quick random bit of browsing the spray can seems to be particularly useful for things like leaves or drops that you would want to add many times all over a drawing). generic reuse of shapes/symbols is really useful as for the svg <use> tag I'll definately have to take a closer look at the SVG that Dia exports and see if it can be made much more efficient by a few well placed <use> tags.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/