[oi-dev] Shipping the nano editor alongside with vi

[Jim Klimov]

On January 13, 2021 2:13:43 PM UTC, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Jan 2021, Jim Klimov wrote:
>>
>> Bob, FWIW I think you can generally copy-paste in terminals with
>mouse if you hold SHIFT while click-dragging to select the text.
>
>Usually the problem I encounter is with a paste over a ssh login.  The 
>source system has either already been dealt with or I am not using vim 
>on the source system.  I don't think that vim is going to detect SHIFT 
>if used over a ssh login.
>
>Bob

Seems to do for me, it detects mouse over SSH after all. I confess I did not bother to check "who" exactly does what, and there are X11, terminal app, console emulation, SSH, another console, vi, and maybe more actors in the logical stack from key-press to char-print ;)

Jim

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