Thanks Yves and Thorsten, but what about if I don't have a middle mouse button (or at least did not manage to get middle mouse button functionality when incompetently configuring X)?
------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Davison Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, USA Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA http://home.uchicago.edu/~davison/ On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Yves Rutschle wrote: > 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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
