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From: token@altair.franken.de (Matthias Buelow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Moused is really nice!
Date: 21 Apr 1997 02:39:51 GMT
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In article <244e3f64.u9t27e.d7a98@slip106.termserv.siu.edu>,
Jim Dutton <jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> wrote:

>I would like to thank the developers of the Moused daemon which works with
>the system consoles. Wow - I can NOW copy and paste console data or even
>whole console screens! NO MORE laborious, manual transcribing (sigh!).

You could've used screen before, which allows cut&waste with vi motions.
Something I'd rather have in the syscons driver than mouse support ;-).

BTW., the cut&waste has a slight annoyance, I recognized that it doesn't
cut off trailing whitespace when pasting, which is not the most clever
idea when pasting text into an editor or similar, imho...

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