On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:54:17PM -0400, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
> You might need to create the text file ~/.inputrc,
> and add the line:
>
> "\e[2~": paste-from-clipboard
Am I right in guessing that you're an emacs user?
Unless I'm configuring it wrong, I think the mapping
functionality of readline is only useful for emacs
users.
I'm a vi user, and the \e in escape sequences seems to
switch readline into command mode - rendering it useless
for mapping escape sequences (I tried creating commands
called "[2" but that doesn't seem to work either - maybe
because there's no implicit newline).
Everybody talks about using .inputrc but nobody mentions
the escape problem - yet I know very few emacs users
professionally - I must really ge misunderstanding something.
> >From the manual page for 'rxvt':
>
> TEXT SELECTION AND INSERTION
> The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is
> similar to xterm(1).
>
>
> Selection:
> Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to
> the end of the region and release; Right click to
> extend the marked region; Left double-click to
> select a word; Left triple-click to select the
> entire line.
>
>
> Insertion:
> Pressing and releasing the Middle mouse button (or
> Shift-Insert) in an rxvt window causes the current
> text selection to be inserted as if it had been
> typed on the keyboard.
The rxvt manual page has overlooked a very important feature
of xterm if it can suggest that the "text ... insertion mechanism
is similar to xterm(1). To quote xterm(1):
insert-selection(sourcename [, ...])
This action inserts the string found in the selec
tion or cutbuffer indicated by sourcename.
Sources are checked in the order given (case is
significant) until one is found. Commonly-used
selections include: PRIMARY, SECONDARY, and CLIP
BOARD. Cut buffers are typically named
CUT_BUFFER0 through CUT_BUFFER7.
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