Re: copy/paste

[Yves Rutschle <debian.anti-spam@rutschle.net>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:58:19PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote:
> I'm not sure whether this is a Debian question, but could someone tell me
> how to copy text out of a pine (email) session on a remote linux/unix
> computer (connected to via ssh) into e.g. an xemacs buffer or mozilla
> running under Debian on my laptop? ctrl-insert and shift-insert seem to do
> it in Pine, but shift-insert does not paste into e.g. xemacs text copied
> with ctrl-insert in pine.

This is a horrible way of cutting and pasting. (as in, not
convenient, cumbersome and hard to remember.)

The "proper" way is to select the text, then middle-click in
the target window.

Y.