Announcing cut and paste feature for speakup!

[Deedra Waters]

Can I get the  download sight for this?
Also, if you need to recompile the cernal is there someone who can tell me
how to do this?


On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Jim Danley wrote:

> The power to cut and paste has been added to Speakup!
> 
> Have you ever needed to make note of a phone number, IP address, or long
> URL displayed on the screen?  Well, with the new cut and paste feature,
> cutting text from the screen and pasting it into any application in any
> console is now possible.
> 
> You will need to checkout the latest CVS copy of speakup to enjoy this
> new feature.
> 
> There are two new default speakup keys reserved.  The keypad divide key,
> the one just right of the numlock key, is the mark/cut toggle.
> The paste key is Insert keypad divide.
> 
> Here is how it works.
> 
> 1.  Move reading cursor to one end of the block of text you wish to cut
> 2.  Press the mark/cut key.  You should hear "mark".
> 3.  Move reading cursor to other end of block of text to be cut.
> 4.  Press the mark/cut key.  You should hear "cut".
> 5.  The cut buffer is now saved.
> 6.  Move to a program in any console where you wish to copy the cut buffer.
> 7.  Press the paste key.  You should hear "paste" and text from
>     the cut buffer will be output just as if you had entered it
>     at the keyboard.
> 
> Note:  Trailing whitespace is stripped and newlines added where appropriate.
> 
> Cut and paste has been tested successfully on Linux kernel versions
> 2.2.19 and 2.4.9.  Enjoy!
> 
> 	Jim Danley
> 
> 
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