Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 18:19:44 -0700 From: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no option to copy an email address in Firefox? Message-ID: <20140820011944.GA19544@home.parts-unknown.org> In-Reply-To: <20140819230129.77a26b27.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140819203535.GA85072@home.parts-unknown.org> <20140819230129.77a26b27.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:01:29PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:35:35 -0700, David Benfell wrote: > > When I right-click on an email address on my owncloud site, with the > > intent of copying the address to use in mutt (via an ssh session), it > > brings up an application dialog. If I hit cancel on the application > > dialog, I do not have the option to copy the email address. >=20 > You could try to use the edito buffer presemt in X (and > independent from Firefox and mutt): Select the text with > the left mouse button (or doubleclick at the address, it > should be selected now), then switch focus to the terminal > running mutt, and press the middle mouse button - the > selected text should now appear. Make sure that the cursor > is in the correct input field, usually there is no mouse > support for positioning the cursor prior to output. This > should work for ssh, as it "emulates keystrokes" and therefore > doesn't rely on ^C / ^V buffering. >=20 > Note: If you don't have a mouse with three buttons, but > a mouse wheel, press down the wheel. If your mouse has > only two buttons, press both. >=20 > I'm using this method regularly to copy text into and out > of different programs and windows. Needless to say, I have > a real 3-button mouse. :-) >=20 Generally, I have a very good four-button trackball mouse (so the middle button is actually upper left). It's only when I'm on the road and have no place to set up that trackball that I might be reduced to the awful touchpad and it's awful two buttons. There's something weird about owncloud that doesn't allow you to swipe that way (and owncloud is where I keep all my contact information). It's possible to get it by actually opening up the contact, but this of course is clumsy and risks an unintended edit. So I was hoping for 'normal' behavior. The best answer would be if pycarddav was available as a port on FreeBSD; this interfaces neatly with mutt (and I'm actually already configured to use it), but while I see from Google that someone intended on porting it, apparently they never followed through :-( https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D189098 --=20 David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT8/ewAAoJEBV64x4SNmArO6UQAKLvEEcA58Uc0JzEGr1gxtzZ 5D352jcDsUbfmyDhyv81+/5Y0dj06UK+zq/xPHjCIWUTjJYSgAMZ04jJRc5EzZPO bXbTgy7z+8asEEiS/ElQKMk4gCrrMO0oLapUfqLUgo1gzGXPOrCdndj3cW7p2rDD bDpVIIyx1e6JPwlNCqY2RyohqskRROC7sxQRJgyifs2RliA1mO23s/q1jxwwHqcF 1C8w986dHJ8+CMincDa3pGChRhuPeKok1QjxKl/w6bKrD7yl2oWhx+eMkW2TRPVK 5ZA5YVSpohRUoaNbIlQS+omqD5aZ+Fd3uZfpXeTft033tjH3fzleodNoLQCoFRjs vgENX0RGNWl+RtsvjZk62SYnUT6LSRLjvma9i97i5mWkI6Jhai2A2O9YDeEfvNbo ehadHd3NW5iGQXbwYsMJaClfvs2fb98e6ftC1qYv9p6yRmDFWXsW6acbsx/JIrHe 0GbxzLvRv6N3AECATr1GItagZ1/1aFYrqxcgKcU4q4SWocZvtyxFhN777UP2d5NL H4CHv/n3522hP0dhTkRFf+cY0Of/l7oapDmtLvqOAPs4K0JtjrTDM/lfqvDCSqUf 4jNF6v+O+J7XnsXMSir4kcywh3pVvR8Bff2ZhCrBh9hTWyOQnCEw5nlyOnocYvsK pU/8bhNpKqn0xoPdhtO7 =NVaA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--
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