From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 19:43: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from catalyst.sasknow.net (catalyst.sasknow.net [207.195.92.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3F137B405 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by catalyst.sasknow.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0J3hfW02452; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:43:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) X-Authentication-Warning: catalyst.sasknow.net: ryan owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:43:41 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson X-X-Sender: ryan@catalyst.sasknow.net To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: RE: Using mouse on syscon? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020118212043.H647-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message