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Re: copy-paste


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According to Eric Blake on 3/9/2007 7:35 AM:
> If you use Window's terminal (cmd.com) to host bash, then you must use
> Window's notion of copy-n-paste (and their terminal is rather dumb at
> copy-n-past semantics, as you have noticed).
> 
> If you use rxvt or xterm, you get Unix semantics, where by default,
> highlighting text copies it to the clipboard, and middle clicking pastes
> it to the terminal.

P.S. Copying from cmd.com picks up rectangular regions, with
awkwardly-inserted newlines, while copying from rxvt or xterm picks up
continuous text, and understands lines longer than the terminal width.
Yet one more reason that I _greatly_ prefer rxvt over Microsoft's
brain-dead excuse for a terminal.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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