Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

vincent.tournebise@free.fr wrote:

> Hello all,
> I'd like to know the tricks available in the unix console - I mean raw console,
> no Xterm or whataver X console. One exemple: a lot of you do some screen output
> copy in their messages. Copy & paste, sort of... How do you do that ?
>
>  
One method might be by redirecting output, as in:

cat /etc/passwd > newfile.txt

> Thanks to the General Purpose Mouse daemon I have a funny square hanging around
> the screen which seems to respond my mouse's moves. But what can I do with it ?
> I've tried it in some n-curses based "text-mode-graphical" apps, and clicking on
> the buttons doesn't seem to do anything. I see I can select characters on the
> screen, but what can I perform with this ?
>  
Highlight text with left-button; move to where you want to paste; 
middle-click to paste.

> Any chance to use the mouse in Links, or Aptitude ? or... maybe in Emacs ??
>
>  
Sorry, don't know.

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Kent