On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:42, Peter Evans wrote:
Scott Jones:
Sure there is. Highlight the text to be copied with the left mouse button, click the middle mouse button to paste.
Sounds great -- but nothing happens.
Well, since I wanted to paste from Konqueror, I did that with left mouse and Ctrl-C. As for the Ctrl-V equivalent within mined:
How did you guess that my rat is one of the <5% with a middle button? I tried the middle button, and, vaguely remembering having read somewhere that "middle button" could be fudged with left and right buttons, tried that combination too. I tried them with mined both in and not in WordStar keyboard mode. Nothing. Total number of bytes pasted: zero.
Have I misunderstood, again?
Nope, no misunderstanding. I took a closer look. Mined uses the ncurses library for display. According to the ncurses FAQ: "I can't cut/paste in xterm This is a general FAQ relating to xterm. When an application sets xterm to any of its mouse tracking modes, it reserves the unshifted mouse button clicks for the application's use. Unless you have modified the treatment of the shifted mouse button events (e.g., with your window manager), you can always do cut/paste by pressing the shift key while clicking with the mouse." So, copy from another app would still be LMB-highlight, then shift-middle click to paste into mined. I've tried this, and it works in every terminal I tried, including xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal and aterm. -- Scott Jones (scott at exti dot net)