On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:58:19PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote: > I'm not sure whether this is a Debian question, but could someone tell me > how to copy text out of a pine (email) session on a remote linux/unix > computer (connected to via ssh) into e.g. an xemacs buffer or mozilla > running under Debian on my laptop? ctrl-insert and shift-insert seem to do > it in Pine, but shift-insert does not paste into e.g. xemacs text copied > with ctrl-insert in pine.
This is a horrible way of cutting and pasting. (as in, not convenient, cumbersome and hard to remember.) The "proper" way is to select the text, then middle-click in the target window. Y.