<div id="RTEContent"> Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 11:39 +0000, Chris Norman wrote: > How do I copy & paste from the command line? So I can copy commands > from documents (in nano for example), and paste them into the command > line? > > I'm using SSH to connect. Many things let you drag and select with the left mouse button, and what's left highlighted is copied into a buffer. Then, you paste with the middle mouse button. This doesn't work with everything, though. Sometimes right-clicking into the highlighted text and choosing "copy" from a pop-up menu does the trick. </blockquote>Yeah, <sometimes> 'alt c' will copy, 'alt x' delete and 'alt v' will paste, but not all the time. We had a helluva time with Oracle not accepting copy/pa! ste from an app like Netscape. It would accept cut/paste from Abiword, which would accept from Netscape... so Abiword became sort of a scratch-pad between the two. Go figure. MicroSoft's greatest strength is all their apps ( I say this from my limited knowledge on the matter) seem to accept another's cut/paste. But most commandline edits will accept the alt keys and/or the mouse clicks as Tim pointed out. If you have a two button mouse, you can set up your mouse (mouse config) to use both mouse keys held down, at the same time, as the third button. 3 button mice are cheap. <g> Ric </div> ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/mailstorage/*http://mail.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Mail.</a>