[clug-talk] Command line tips

[Kyle Newton]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Last night I forgot to mention how to copy and paste into an xterm (or
> pretty much any terminal or other program, as long as the mouse is
> enabled.)
>
> To copy text, select it with your left mouse button.
>
> To paste the text, middle click with your mouse.
>
> When pasting on the command line, it will paste wherever your cursor
> is.  When pasting to an X11 application (e.g. firefox, kate,
> thunderbird) it will normally paste wherever you middle-click.


Likewise, the default keyboard shortcut to copying (if simply highlighting
is not doing the trick) is "Shift-Ctrl-C".

The keyboard shortcut for pasting into an x-term is Shift-Insert

-Kyle
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