copy on select in Terminal?

[hazmat]

Anyone know if there is a possibility to copy on select in the Terminal, like a real xterm? It would make unix life a lot nicer, as I use a 3-button mouse. And incidentally, any tips to get highlighting to work properly? I set the text color to green, and am not sure what to set bold to to make it visible when highlighted.

Thanks.


-Ken

 

[scruffy]

Gods, you like copy-on-select? I can't stand it - I highlight important info onscreen instinctively, just to focus my attention on it, or something. Whenever I use X11, I lose clipboard contents constantly. Ah well, to each his own.

You could change the selection colour to something similar to the default background, so everything remains visible. I use a middle grey for the selection, so everything visible on black is also visible on that.

 

[hazmat]

Originally posted by scruffy
Gods, you like copy-on-select? I can't stand it - I highlight important info onscreen instinctively, just to focus my attention on it, or something. Whenever I use X11, I lose clipboard contents constantly. Ah well, to each his own.

Oh, yeah. I love it. Can't live without it! In the terminal, at least. Highlight, middle button paste. Very quick and efficient. Incidentally, you know that in X11, there is not just one clipboard, right? If you are in a web browser, for example, and you actually alt-c/ctrl-c a block of text and then highlight something else, alt-v/ctrl-v will past what you had copied with alt-c/ctrl-c. See <http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html>.

You could change the selection colour to something similar to the default background, so everything remains visible. I use a middle grey for the selection, so everything visible on black is also visible on that.

Yeah, that works. Thanks.


-Ken