Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Eric Hanchrow wrote:

> >>>>> "mwoehlke" == mwoehlke  <mwoehlke@XXXXX.XXX> writes:

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

>     mwoehlke> Awesome?  It appears to be xterm
>     mwoehlke> which needs an X server
>
> True for xterm; false for rxvt.

rxvt will use X if the server is running and DISPLAY is set.  But it
doesn't *need* X -- try "rxvt -display :0".

>     mwoehlke> And I see exactly zero ways in which it is an
>     mwoehlke> improvement over Console.
>
> For Emacs users, the keyboard is somewhat better: various combinations
> of keys that include Escape actually get sent to Emacs.  I forget
> which though.

Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Space.  But you can achieve the same effect by adding
"tty" to $CYGWIN, at which point the differences between rxvt and Console
really do become a matter of taste and key/mouse button bindings (since
with CYGWIN=tty Console will use ptys just like rxvt and xterm).

FWIW, my main gripe with Console is that it doesn't understand line
wrapping, so cutting and pasting a line that wraps multiple times results
in multiple lines.  But I constantly run an X server and use xterms
instead of rxvt, so I can't speak in favor of either of them.

> --
> Paul Graham is right.
>         --Shriram Krishnamurthi

Points on the nice inside joke here, though. :-)
	Igor
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