[Alpine-info] Copying text from a message

[Aidan Wilson]

>>

>> Shift-left-click, move mouse, release. Move cursor to destination (same or

>> different terminal), shift-middle-click. Standard linux procedure.

>

> Works great! Thanks...

>


Another way to enable selecting text straight from Alpine without holding shift 
is to enable the feature 'Enable mouse in Xterm' in the setup, or in the 
.pinerc add the line enable-mouse-in-xterm under feature-list. With this 
enabled, hitting ctrl-| (pipe) will toggle the mouse behaviour from being used 
to select the options at the bottom of each screen or selecting a message in 
the index, to it behaving like a regular mouse in a regular terminal window 
where you can select text as per usual. It's handy if you want to do a lot of 
selecting text, but it will also (I think) disable the scrollwheel on the mouse 
from being able to scroll through a long message, in which case 
shift-left_click is probably more appropriate.

Different tools for different circumstances.