Announcing cut and paste feature for speakup!

[Gregory Nowak]

Thank you Jim,
I'm someone that shure will make grate use of that feature.
Greg


On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:08:35AM -0500, 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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