Re: [E-devel] Eterm feature request: keyboard select mode

[Alan S. <ala...@po...>]

* Shish (shi...@ya...) wrote:
> > I would really like to have a way to select some text
> > using only the keyboard.
>=20
> `screen` has this built in, and eterm has screen built in (if you use the
> screen theme), or you can run it manually.=20
>=20
> Ctrl-a [   : start copy mode
> Enter      : select copy start point
> Enter      : select copy end point
> Ctrl-a ]   : paste from buffer
>=20
> screen is primarily a sort of full screen window manager for the console,=
 but
> it has loads of other useful features too; I couldn't live without it :)

I used screen a few times, so I emerged it to try it again. The sequence=20
you give almost works, but I cannot seem to be able to paste what I=20
select into other applications (it does not seem to be put in the X cut=20
and paste buffer). Any suggestion as how to do this?

Alan Schmitt

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