Thanks, yes, your copy/paste worked. Clicking both mouse buttons at the
same time pastes. Sad that I've been suffering from not reading the book on
that 1 the past month or 2. It doesn't work under mc, but it isn't
critical, there, as I know a way to paste filenames, with alt-enter,
already. mc is a Godsend to me as compared to gui stuff or a command line.
The delete key seems to have a mind of its own. Whether its X, linux, or
kconsole, I'm not sure, but this time it works, next time it doesn't, then
it will work again another time. I will try a newer version of xterm and
when I find a terminal program where the keys work well doing the basics,
I'll remove all the others.
thanks,
BobC
-----Original Message-----
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bob Currey
Subject: Re: [newbie] How do I fix it so I have a normal delete key and
copy/paste in a terminal window?
I don't know how to fix the delete key "feature" (though I'd like to know
how), but I do know how to (kind of) solve your copy-paste problem. The
trick
is that whenever you select any text in X, it is automatically copied to the
copy-paste buffer. To paste, click the middle mouse button where you want
it.
A slight problem with this method is that the data is only copied to the
buffer while it is selected. It disappears when you deselect the text.
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:56, Bob Currey wrote:
> I would like the delete key to work like in DOS where it moves you
noplace,
> and deletes the character under the cursor, shifting the rest to the right
> one position. The problem occurs when I use terminal programs, and its
> pretty frustrating when basis things like the keyboard don't work
> "normally", though not the end of the world.
>
> I would also be eternally grateful for the ability to copy and paste into
> the command line, given the lengths of the filenames, typical, this is
very
> much needed.
>
> Affected programs:
> gnome terminal - clicking swap bs/del doesn't change anything, here, it
> moves me to the left 1 pos and deletes the character preceding the one the
> cursor was on. Can't use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to copy and paste.
>
> kconsole - delete key works normally, but can't use ctrl-c and ctrl-v to
> copy and paste... arghhhh!
>
> xterm - doesn't work at all
>
> ----------------- update -----------------
>
> Well, I figured out a way, at least partially, so I thought I might post
it
> so others can avoid suffering as well...
>
> install mc - midnight commander
>
> f9 for top menu, then select options, then go to learn keys, go thru all
> the keys and then save it. that will fix the delete key. mc allows
> alt-enter to paste the highlighted filename. Not as good as copy and
> paste, but at least functional.
>
> c ya,
>
> BobC
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