Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:43:41 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com> Cc: FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Using mouse on syscon? Message-ID: <20020118212043.H647-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOGEAMCNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
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Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote to Ryan Thompson:
> That it. I put the -3 in the moused_flags="-3".
> The other key point is to use the keyboard curser to
> position the place to past. It works.
Good. Glad I could help with that.
> This is a copy and past function.
> Is there a cut and past function?
No. moused provides general mouse functionality to the system console.
This contrasts other mouse control in graphical environments such as
X, where mouse control ('focus') is passed to the current application,
which must be aware of and react to mouse movements, button presses,
etc.
ee doesn't have any idea what a mouse is, nor should it. With the help
of moused, you can grab text from the screen and send it to the
console just as if you had typed it yourself. ee reacts to this like
any other keyboard action.
If you copy-and-paste "rm -Rf /" in a root terminal, you will quickly
realize the power of this functionality.
Cut-and-paste would have to be application-specific, and the
application would have to be aware of the mouse.
You can implement cut yourself... just delete the text :-)
If you want mouse-oriented cut-and-paste in a text editing
environment, you might try one of the GUI editors that run under X. If
you don't want to run X, I'd suggest you become proficient with a text
editor more powerful than ee, and you'll find that reaching for the
mouse to manipulate text will seem like a terrible chore.
- Ryan
> Thanks for your help.
> Joe
>
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