Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Sat 11 Jun 2022 at 11:47:46 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote:
> > > > > AFAIK, there's no way of recording the screens if you use text
> > > > > mode
> > > > > locally, rather than remotely. Hence the instructions I have been
> > > > > posting. However, it's difficult to write those instructions for
> > > > > someone to follow when it appears that they have forgotten how
> > > > > to cut and paste text from a terminal screen into a file or an
> > > > > editor's buffer, or think that you can cut and paste from a PNG.
> > >
> > > That limit is very easy to see, there is no mouse in those remote
> > > text
> > > screens to use to highlight what you might want to paste into nano
> > > and
> > > keep.
> >
> > Gene, come on. You know how to select and paste out of an xterm. It
> > does not matter what that xterm is doing, whether it is displaying a
> > file of locally stored bible notes, running the Debian installer or
> > running minicom into the serial port of a nuclear power station's
> > control panel. It displays text. You select the text with a mouse
> > and paste that into a another document.
> >
> > Why is getting you to paste textual data from one terminal window
> > into another (or a text editor or email or whatever) so
> > monumentally difficult?
> >
> Very simple Andy, the vt1-2-3-4, what have you text login does NOT use
> the mouse, so there is no way to highlight what you want to copy/paste.
> Why is that so hard to understand as the reason I can't post what I see?
>
> In a gfx login I use konsole simply because its the most full feature,
> bug free terminal software linux offers. The only other term proggy I see
> in the menu's here it termit, which up to now I'v never used. So let me
> look at it before I hit the reset botton after plugging in the optical
> drive with the d-i in it. Aha! it uses the mouse to highlight text on
> screen, and pastes it into nano AS TEXT. Marvelous. but will it run on an
> alt+ctrl+f2 screen.
>
> no.
Reread my instructions. You weren't asked to cut and paste on a VC
(console), but in an xterm.
> So what is this "xterm" you speak of that is supposed to be able to do
> all this magic stuff.
Don't be so disingenuous—you know very well. You've used it.
Not surprisingly, you've remonstrated on it here.
Cheers,
David.
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