Re: mastering the console & gpm mouse management

[Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm>]

I use "screen" for cut and paste in a terminal.

I wrote a front-end to screen called "splish" which makes it much easier
to switch between screens, and does other stuff, I get a splish prompt
instead of a bash prompt when I log in / open an xterm.

  http://nipl.net/hacks/splish

In screen ^A^[ puts you into "cut mode", where you can search through
the terminal output with ? and /, and mark the start and end of a
selection with ' ';  and ^A^] pastes.

I changed my screen escape character from ^A to ^J as ^A is
used by readline, but ^J normally just has the same effect as pressing
enter.  (except in emacs, which I don't use in a terminal)