From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 1 6:14:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DC337B423 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 06:14:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10385 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:14:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22374 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:11:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G07M4400.H5G; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 09:14:28 -0400 Message-ID: <39AFAB88.E34C82BF@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 09:13:44 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message