2009/10/26 Kurt Harriger: > When using the cmd window you can mark text using Alt-Space for menu, > E for edit, Enter to begin mark, position cursor to start of > selection, hold shift position cursor to end and press enter to copy > to clipboard, and finally Alt-Space, E, P to paste. Although its an > annoyingly long key sequence its pretty much automatic and I don't > think about it much, but the block mode often requires multiple > selections which is just awful even with a mouse. > > I ran across a blog comment somewhere suggesting using rxvt for easier > copy/paste functionality. Although the mouse based copy/paste is > certainly easier and fewer keystrokes required to paste text, I would > much rather avoid the mouse as much as possible. However, I cannot > seem to find find any way to mark text with keyboard in rxvt. I also > found mintty has a lot of nice options, but still can't seem to find > any way to copy text without a mouse. Am I missing something?
Apple's Terminal.app has such a feature, but I don't know of any open source terminal that has it. Except for the special case of GNU screen, although there you're limited to copy&pasting within screen, but perhaps that'd be sufficient? For mintty, there's this enhancement issue: http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=84. You may want to vote for it by "starring" it. It would take quite a lot of tuits to implement though, so don't hold your breath. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
