Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:01:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: sos@FreeBSD.org To: marcs@alive.ampr.ab.ca (Marc Slemko) Cc: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: interest in syscons cut&paste patches for 2.1.5? Message-ID: <199609030801.KAA05704@ra.dkuug.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960902225717.302A-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca> from "Marc Slemko" at Sep 2, 96 11:16:45 pm
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In reply to Marc Slemko who wrote:
Be sure to get the latest changes in there too, it should be a couble
of easy cvs commands to do this...
Also remeber to get moused along...
>
> Would anyone be interested in patches to support the below functionality
> in 2.1.5? I have the first version of the patches (ie. the one that Soren
> released on 96/06/21) working locally on a 2.1.5 system; no real changes
> were required to make them fit 2.1.5, just some manual patching since
> there have been a number of changes to the syscons driver. I haven't
> gotten as far as bring them up to date on the improvements he has made to
> it after the initial commit; as long as the API changes don't cause
> problems on a 2.1.5 system, I should have my patches for 2.1.5 up to date
> sometime this week.
>
> If there is any interest in these patches, I will bundle them up sometime
> this week and put them up for ftp somewhere.
>
>
> >
> > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 12:54:12 +0200 (MET DST)
> > From: sos@freebsd.org
> > To: current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current)
> > Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added...
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > I just put in the last bits to get CUT&PASTE to work in syscons.
> > This now allow one to C&P between the consoles using the mouse
> > to select the needed text.
> > For this to work, run the moused daemon with the prober parameters
> > specifying mousetype & port. Then on the console where this feature
> > is needed just say vidcontrol -m on, and a mousepointer will show
> > up on the screen. Left button cuts & right button paste.
> > I'd like to hear how this works out with different mousetypes and
> > especially with different display hardware. Please note this works
> > only on ega's and above, as the mousepointer is done by reprogramming
> > the charset, giving the illusion that a "real" graphic mousepointer
> > is used.
> > There still need to be implemented a prober eventhandling mechanism
> > but thats still on the drawingboard. When that is done, applications
> > can start using this feature as well (libdialog comes to mind)...
> >
> > Have fun...
> >
> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> > Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
> > So much code to hack -- so little time.
> >
>
>
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Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
So much code to hack -- so little time.
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