Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:33:13 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Patrick Thomas" <root@utility.clubscholarship.com> Cc: "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How do I cut and paste in console mode ? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOAEBOCJAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20020227140234.Y69509-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com>
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Let me point out the difference between cut & copy. When you cut a selected area and past it to a different area, the selected area is REMOVED from the original area, where a copy leaves behind the original selected area. Are you really cutting out the original selected area or just copying the original selected area? If you can do both, please tell me how. I understand what you are talking about in reference to the paste buttons. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Patrick Thomas Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:04 PM To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: RE: How do I cut and paste in console mode ? when you are running moused, you have a cursor floating around in console mode. Just select text - simply by virtue of being selected, it is 'cut'. Normally, then all you do to paste it is press the middle mouse button, but again, I don't have a middle mouse button, which was the point of my question originally. If you look at the thread, you will see someone explained how to modify the kernel so you can paste with the right button instead of the middle one. Easy. --PT On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > Please explain how you do the cut function? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Thomas [mailto:root@utility.clubscholarship.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:40 PM > To: Joe & Fhe Barbish > Subject: RE: How do I cut and paste in console mode ? > > > actually the console mode freeBSD cursor _does_ have cut and paste, and it > works just fine if you have a middle mouse button to do the pasting. But > I don't, so someone was kind enough to show me a kernel config to allow > use of the right button for paste instead of the middle button in console > mode. > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > > Patrick, > > > > You are missing the secret key to copy & pasting with the mouse. > > It's sooo simple, but sooo different than ms/windows. > > On your screen you will see 2 cursers. > > One moves by the mouse and the other moves by the > > keyboard arrow buttons. > > > > Here is the sequence to use copy & past. > > Use the mouse to position the mouse curser at the start position > > of what you want to copy, hold down left mouse button to high-light > > what you want to select. Once you release the left mouse button > > you will hear your hard drive work as the selected info is written > > to the clip board. > > > > Now here is the secret stuff. > > Use the keyboard arrow to move the non-mouse curser to the position > > you want to start the past at. Then move the mouse curser to the > > keyboard arrow curser and as it get closer it will turn into an arrow. > > Position this mouse curser arrow on the keyboard arrow curser and then > > click both mouse buttons at same time and bada bing it's pasted. > > > > For your info FBSD console mouse support does not have the cut function > > or the point & click functions one may be custom to from ms/windows. > > All it has is copy & past. > > > > Below is my rc.conf statements to active console mouse copy & past > function. > > > > moused_enable="YES" # Run the mouse daemon. > > moused_port="/dev/psm0" # PS/2 > > moused_type="auto" # > > moused_flags="-3" # press both mouse button to past > > allscreens_flags="-m on" # Set this vidcontrol mode for all > > # virtual screens.[mouse on] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Patrick Thomas > > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:20 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: How do I cut and paste in console mode ? > > > > > > I am successfully running the mouse daemon (the mouse is moving on the > > screen, and I can select text with it). > > > > I am not running X, I am simply in console mode. Question: > > > > How do I paste ? > > > > I tried both buttons at the same time, and I tried shift-insert. No dice. > > > > I read in a news posting that console mode mouse will only paste with the > > middle mouse button, but I don't have a middle mouse button because I am > > using a _normal PC just like everybody else_. > > > > So how do I paste in console mode with a two-button mouse ? > > > > thanks! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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