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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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On 2005-04-22 08:59, dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>     I've got a screen session that has four windows in it. Data in
> window 1 needs to be in windows 2 3 and 4, which are all separate
> files. I do not want to manually retype all of this, was wondering if
> screen had a feature like a virtual clipboard?

Yes, of course:

^A [		insert copy mode

SPACE		start copy block

SPACE		end copy block (and exit copy mode)

^A ]		paste copied text

The first three are usually used in the "source window".

The last one can be used in the "destination window" to paste the text
copied with the first three.