Re: copy/paste
Thanks Yves and Thorsten, but what about if I don't have a middle mouse
button (or at least did not manage to get middle mouse button
functionality when incompetently configuring X)?
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Dan Davison
Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, USA
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
http://home.uchicago.edu/~davison/
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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