multi tasking

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Keith,
Yes, GPM has a system wide clipboard like that, but I do not know
of another way to do that sort of thing on text consoles without
either speakup or GPM and a mouse. Someone pointed out that emacs
has its own clipboard, and since you can have several
applications open in their own emacs windows, you could do that
in an emacs environment.

If I can anticipate the need to copy something from the screen I
can redirect a program's output to a file and then isolate the
desired stuff in the file, or else run the 'script' program,
which also captures keyboard/screen text to a log file.

I agree though, the cut and paste feature of speakup is a real
winner.

Chuck

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Keith Heltsley wrote:

> I guess I forgot about using a mouse pointer to select text. What I was also
> wondering about is how would a person copy to a central clipboard?
>
> For example you have pine open and copy a snippet of text and want to paste
> it into a totally separate program. nano, emacs, vi, or something else. They
> wouldn't all have the same paste command and they would probably not be able
> to access the clip board memory that was originally used in the program you
> cut it from. Is that what that GPM does?
>
> Since SpeakUp has that really cool copy/paste feature, I'm not too concerned
> about the issue. I was just curious to know how my sighted counterparts
> would handle the same thing.
>
> from
> Keith H.
>
>
> --- You Wrote ---
> > Without speakup, a sighted person would probably use the mouse to
> > cut and paste. "gpm" is a general purpose mouse program for text
> > consoles designed to do just that.
>
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