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I'm using mined as my editor, because it has a WordStar interface.

As I understand it -- and I'm a stupid newbie, so I probably don't -- there's no standard way to copy a chunk of text from, say, Konqueror and then paste it into mined. (Certainly "clipboard" isn't mentioned anywhere in mined's lengthy documentation.) Therefore in order to paste in a little chunk of text from Konqueror I must paste it into Kate or some such conventional editor, save the result as a file, and read the file into the file I'm writing with mined. Yawn!

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? (The latest annoyance is -- But no, that had better wait for another thread. I have only ten minutes to get out of this building before it's locked up.)

Peter Evans wrote:

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.

Are you running mined in a terminal within X, or a pure text console (tty2, tty3 etc)? If you're in X, have you tried running mined inside konsole? There's an edit/paste entry in konsole's menu which sometimes works when the X clipboards don't. Highlight the text to be copied in the normal way, switch to the konosle and select edit/paste. If you're running mined on tty2 (or whatever) you could try gpm which supports copy'n'paste. I think what you'd have to do is (going from a vague memory), switch to your terminal, su to root, "rcgpm start", exit back to your normal user and you should find that your mouse is controlling a text cursor. If you then start mined in that terminal, and maybe try something like links as a browser in another terminal, you should be able to copy text (left mouse button, click and drag) from one terminal and paste (right click) into another when you switch terms. Maybe this'll help? sjb

The reason I ask is because I can cut in windows and paste into WordSTAR for DOS running under windows. Wine is an addon program but DOSEMU is included so I am not sure which to use. CWSIV On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:24:28 +0200 Gerhard den Hollander writes:

* Carl William Spitzer IV (Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at

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Why not run Wordstar in the Dos emulator? Or Wine? Does Wine support cut and paste?

???? Why not simply select text with left mouse button, paste test with middle mouse button ?

Works like a charm, between any X-application.

(and yes, wine supports cut and paste (^c/^v in wine, left/middel mosue click in X)

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