Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

[Owen Rees <owen dot rees at hp dot com>]

--On 24 August 2006 10:39 -0700 Eric Hanchrow wrote:

>     Igor> FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't
>     Igor> understand line wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that
>     Igor> wraps multiple times results in multiple lines.
>
> Yup.  And as far as I know, there's no way to tell the console "please
> save the accumulated scrollback into a file".  But then I don't think
> rxvt can do that either :-)

You can select all the available scrolled text with both Console and rxvt 
(Console scrolls when you drag off the top/bottom and extends the 
selection, rxvt extends the selection with a right mouse click so you can 
select, scroll, right click).

Once you have copied it all, "cat >somefile" then paste, CR ^D will get it 
into a file. Perhaps not quite as simple as having a 'save' option, but not 
too hard to do.

If you are using rxvt, long lines that wrapped on display will be long 
lines in the file, With Console, there will be line breaks wherever it 
wrapped.

In the context of copying and pasting in a window, I find rxvt far superior 
to Console because of the way it handles long lines (as well 
copying/pasting the way X does without requiring that X be running).

--
Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK



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