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Date:      Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:13:44 -0400
From:      "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>
To:        igorr@crosswinds.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <39AFAB88.E34C82BF@mitre.org>
References:  <20000830194924.3B2C03123@uno.bcn.net> <20000901084438.D14175@linux.rainbow> <20000901084836.F14175@linux.rainbow> <14767.41220.249000.393457@jef-nt.mdacc.tmc.edu> <20000901164407.C2447@linux.rainbow>

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Igor Roboul wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 07:28:52AM -0500, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
> > > And even why do you mouse need on console at all :-) ? Without X?
> >
> > You use it for cut and paste. It is still very handy for that.  The
> > original poster might look at the FAQ (or maybe the handbook, cant
> > remember which) for more stuff about mouse in console and X.
> Cut and paste is not needed on console :-) Strange?
> For shell command line there is 'history' (!:1, xx*, etc),
> most editors have own cut buffer, for example vim saves cut buffer
> between sessions.

That's all well and good until someone sends you an email with a 4 line
long URL in it that has the fix for your X11 problems and you have to
type the whole darn thing in by hand to pull up the page in lynx.  


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