Re: [orca-list] how to copy text from the terminal

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

Steve Holmes writes:
> Suffice it to say, I hope I can help get Orca's flat review facility
> to be able to select text and maybe a deal to append selection to the
> clipboard.  I think where appropriate, pasting from the clipboard
> works fine and even in the terminal, that works.  In fact, if one can
> get some text selected by hook or crook, it can be copied to the
> clipboard even in the terminal.  So really, it comes down to text
> selection while in flat review.
Yes. But the selection process is quite problematic for me in the GUI.
So, especially when I'm in a hurry, I will do something like open Gedit,
bulk copy what I want plus whatever else is there with a Ctrl-A, then
edit out what I don't want.

PS: I still use vim for editing--much faster, imho.

I also use xclip a lot, especially taking URIs from Firefox over to a
file.


Copying into the gui is not something I've found easy to do. Might be
just me, but I'm still in work around mode on that--e.g., when I have a
URI I want to paste into Firefox, I'm likely to create a quick and dirty
web page on my Apache server using the clipboard built into Speakup, and then point FF at that rednote.net 
address.

Janina