Re: Copy and paste in Terminal

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  On 10/13/2010 07:54 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 10:04 PM, JD wrote:
>>    On 10/13/2010 06:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>>> On 10/13/2010 03:42 PM, Alex wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> For some reason, simply highlighting text in a Terminal no longer
>>>> copies it to the buffer. I must right-click then select copy in order
>>>> for it to work. What changed? How can I fix this?
>>> AFAICT, when you highlight text with the mouse/touchpad, you can "copy"
>>> it only with the middle button (or both buttons on a two button
>>> mouse/touchpad).  This is *not* the same as COPY/PASTE, but a similar
>>> functionality.  You lose the ability to copy the highlighted text as
>>> soon as the highlight goes away (presumably by a click somewhere else).
>>>    It is a function of X11.
>>>
>>>> I thought it might have something to do with screen, but it does it on
>>>> any tab, whether screen is being used or not.
>>> It still works for me in Fedora 12.  What version are you running?
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alex
>> Well, on my system, all I have to do is highlight it
>> and it automatically is in the copy buffer, and I
>> can paste it with the middle button.
> Nope, I just tried it.  I copied some text to the copy/paste buffer.
> Then I highlighted some text with the mouse.  I clicked to paste the
> highlighted text, used ctrl-shift-v to paste the copy/paste buffer text,
> then clicked again to paste the highlighted text again.  They are
> seperate and different on my system.  This is the way I expect it to
> work, and has worked for me since *way* back in the X11-R3 days of the
> 1990's....
>
> (I was using X11 on Sun workstations before Linus released his first
> version of linux on the free world.  My first 5 1/4" disc was for
> linux-0.12, and that was before there was X11 support in Linux.  B^)
>
I have been copying and pasting as I described above
ever since the first X release on BSD.
No control-shift-v and no control-shift-c .
Just hightlight with left button and paste with middle
button. No fuss and no mess :) :)


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