[Alpine-info] Copying and pasting blocks of text

[Mats Dufberg]

On Feb 3, 2008, 10:18 (-0500) Seth Williamson <hazelmotes at gmail.com> wrote:


> I had a situation this morning that comes up frequently.  I had to copy and 

> paste a relatively complicated series of text blocks from multiple 

> sources--in this case, plain text, HTML, rtf and open document format--into 

> the same e-mail.

> 

> With an X-enabled client you can use commands like Ctrl-X, Ctrl--C, Ctrl-V, 

> etc.  Plus user a clipboard manager like klipper.  These tools apparently 

> don't work the same in pico, or maybe at all.  At least, I was having little 

> luck at it.

> 

> Is there a workaround for jobs like this in Alpine?


Try pasting by clicking the middle button on your mouse, or left+right if 
your mouse has just two buttons. Another alternative can be to do press 
Shift-Insert (hold down shift and press Insert). Depending on your 
environment, you might have two buffers for cut-and-paste. If you use KDE, 
see Klipper.


Mats

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