I believe you can to change the options of xterm editor and set up others..
El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 4:56, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> escribió: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by > > Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from xterm > > xterm is a terminal emulator. Pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal emulator > simply passes a byte (0x03) to the application running inside the > terminal, which is usually a shell. But they're interpreted by the > terminal driver layer first. The stty command allows you to see or > change the bindings of control characters by the terminal driver. > > Ctrl-C is usually bound to the 'intr' facility in the terminal driver. > Pressing it in a terminal sends the interrupt signal (SIGINT) to all > running foreground processes. It does not copy text. That's a Windows > thing, and you are not in Windows. > > > Unable to paste from xterm into a text editor using Ctrl + V or Shift > > + Ctrl + V > > Pressing Ctrl-V in a terminal emulator sends a byte (0x16) to the > application. At the terminal driver layer, Ctrl-V is usually bound > to the 'lnext' facility (literal next). It's like an escape sequence > for keys. The next key you press *after* Ctrl-V will lose its special > meaning, and will just be passed along verbatim. > > For example, if you press Ctrl-V Ctrl-C, it won't interrupt foreground > processes. Instead, it will simply pass the literal 0x03 byte to the > application. It becomes data. > > hobbit:~$ printf ^C | hd > 00000000 03 |.| > 00000001 > > The ^C there is where I pressed Ctrl-V Ctrl-C. > > Now, all of that is just background information. > > What you wanted to know, I guess, is "how to copy text between terminals". > > The first step is to highlight the text with the left mouse button. Drag > the mouse over the text while holding the left button. This creates > a "selection" containing the text you've selected. > > Next, click on the window that you want to paste the text *into*. You > need this window to have "focus". Depending on your window manager, > clicking may not actually be needed. Some WMs use "focus follows mouse", > which means the mouse pointer simply has to be inside the window. Others > use "click to focus" which means you have to click. > > Once you've focused on the receiving window, press the middle mouse > button to paste the selection into the second window. > > (X11 uses three-button mice. Everything is designed around this.) > > If your mouse is too new or too Microsoft-tainted to have three buttons, > then things get tricky. > > If your mouse is literally an old PS/2 style two-button mouse from the > 1980s, you might be in real trouble. There are hacks to try to mimic > the middle button in other ways, but you'll have to read documentation > to learn how to invoke them. > > Let's assume that's not the case. > > If your mouse has two buttons plus a scroll wheel, you might be able to > press the scroll wheel to act as the middle button. Doing this without > also *turning* the scroll wheel takes practice. It can be done, at > least sometimes. > > So, that's how you copy and paste text between windows in X11. You > select with the left button, and paste with the middle button. > > Obviously the world can't be that simple. While X11 was developing > this interface around three-button mice, Microsoft was building a > different interface around two-button mice. > > In the Microsoft paradigm, you copy by highlighting the text you want > to copy, and then performing a second step. That step might be > right-clicking a menu and selecting "Copy". Or it might be pressing > Ctrl-C (but not in a terminal emulator). Once you've performed this > copy operation, the text is in a "clipboard", which is separate from > the "selection". > > Pasting text from the clipboard into a new window under the Microsoft > paradigm is done by pressing Shift-Insert. (Or by right-clicking a > menu and selecting Paste, or by pressing Ctrl-V in some programs, but > not in terminal emulators.) > > Some programs that you run on Debian may use the Windows paradigm and > put data into the clipboard instead of the selection. For those > things, you can try Shift-Insert instead of the middle button. It's > just another thing you might need to know/use. > > Good luck. > >
