Is there any way to highlight to cut and past in cygwin?

Kevin Markle kmarkle@pbs.org
Thu Mar 29 19:02:00 GMT 2007


Dave Korn wrote :
> On 29 March 2007 19:43, Jeff Hawk wrote:
>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From:  On Behalf
>>> Of Dave Korn
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:37 AM
>>> Subject: RE: Is there any way to highlight to cut and past in cygwin?
>>> 
>>> On 29 March 2007 16:43, Kevin Markle wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm used to using putty in SUN and was able to highlight and right
>>>> click to paste can I do this in cygwin?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>   Use 'xterm' or 'rxvt' as terminals instead of the standard dos-shell
>>> console and you'll get the same behaviour.
>>> 
>> 
>> Except that it's middle click for paste.
>
>   Ah, if it's not X-like behaviour that he's after then I guess what Kevin
> wants is indeed a DOS console with "Quick Edit" mode turned on in the
> properties then.
>
>   How many buttons does a SUN mouse have, anyway?  ;-)
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

Boy you guys are great at helping out the new guy! I was just tired of 
fighting with the DOS windows my fat finger typing was causing me to 
much :-@. Putty is what I'm used to so it is working great!




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