Re: newbie-esque: how to cut & paste?
Hi,
in X, you can copy/paste texts with your middle mouse button (or by
pressing both buttons if you only have two).
Select the text you want to copy with your left button
In an other window, put the text cursor at the place where you want it to paste
Press the middle mouse button to make it so.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote:
> let's say you have debian potato running and all is right with
> the world.
>
> X (startx or via kdm) is lovely, and console/virtual terminals
> run flawlessly with gpm as well.
>
> the mouse moves its pointer all over the place at your bidding,
> and you can select text at the console whether in vi or less or
> lynx; and within X your mouse can select text via konqueror (kde)
> and quickie notepad-like accessories and in rxvt/xterm/etc.
>
> coming from the mac background, i'm used to being able to
> command-c (control-c) to COPY whatever's been selected via mouse,
> which i can then command-v (control-v) PASTE into just about any
> place that would accept typed text.
>
> how does a debian/potato user do the cut-and-paste dance?
>
> - select text and copy it from console, switch to X, paste into a
> netscape or konqueror html form field
>
> - select text from kwrite, running under kde/X, and paste it into
> a vim session in 'paste' mode running in a krxvt X window
>
> - select text from a konqueror file listing within X (say, a
> collection of file names) and switch to console to paste it
> into a vim session there...
>
> altho i'm guessing that each frickin application developer
> implemented his own personal preferences, resulting in a plethora
> of inconsistent methodologies, i'll ask this question in the
> singular form:
>
> what's the incantation?
>
> --
> with linux, everything is possible. and nothing worthwhile is easy.
>
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