keyboard paste from clipboard into bash

Kevin Schnitzius kevin.schnitzius@citrix.com
Mon Jan 24 19:10:00 GMT 2000


The windows code is cake.  Bash/readline code is heinous.

Anyone craw through that code before who could save me some time figuring it
out? 

Kevin


-----Original Message-----
From:	Chris Faylor [ mailto:cgf@cygnus.com ]
Sent:	Monday, January 24, 2000 19:41
To:	Kevin Schnitzius
Cc:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject:	Re: keyboard paste from clipboard into bash

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 06:10:59PM -0500, Kevin Schnitzius wrote:
>Is there a way to do this?

No.

>When I have my hands on the keyboard, I don't want to reach for the mouse
to
>do a paste and Alt-space, e, p is awkward.
>
>Would it be possible to extend bash to pick up a single char paste?

Yes.  Certainly.  It will require a knowledge of Windows and bash, of
course.  If you come up with a patch, you should definitely submit this
to the bash maintainer.

cgf

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