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how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

so that I can copy from say firefox and paste it in the editor and vice versa

editors are vi, nano and emacs
using xmonad window manager if that info's useful

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

in vi, press i for insert then press the insert button on your keyboard, or press the middle button of your mouse.

Edit: In fact Insert should work as pasting in the terminal as a whole

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

what about copying from the terminal editors and pasting into firefox?

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

Hilight with the mouse, middle click in Firefox to paste.

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

Install vim/gvim and do :h quoteplus

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

In vim, mc, links and other terminal programs that support the mouse, you can hold the Shift key while pressing the mouse buttons to avoid the program catching the clicks, so you can select and paste like it would in the terminal.
(I'm not sure my explanation is clear, just try and see...)

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

If you use screen, ^a+[ will enter copy mode, the spacebar will select, and ^a+] will paste.  You can use shift+mouse button in dvtm.

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

In vim, mc, links and other terminal programs that support the mouse, you can hold the Shift key while pressing the mouse buttons to avoid the program catching the clicks, so you can select and paste like it would in the terminal.
(I'm not sure my explanation is clear, just try and see...)

This is how I do it too.  When I use vim then I have to do Ctrl + Shift + C to copy.  To paste into vim I have to to Ctrl + Shift + V.

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Re: how do I enable mouse cut / copy / paste in commandline editors?

In vim, mc, links and other terminal programs that support the mouse, you can hold the Shift key while pressing the mouse buttons to avoid the program catching the clicks, so you can select and paste like it would in the terminal.
(I'm not sure my explanation is clear, just try and see...)

This is how I do it too.  When I use vim then I have to do Ctrl + Shift + C to copy.  To paste into vim I have to to Ctrl + Shift + V.

I don't think that's what EmaRsk meant.  Those keybindings are for your terminal emulator, while Shift + Mouse works in any of them.

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