screen question

Ash omniBSD at speakeasy.net
Fri Apr 22 06:17:35 PDT 2005


dave wrote:
> Hello,
>     I've got a screen session that has four windows in it. Data in window 1
> needs to be in windows 2 3 and 4, which are all separate files. I do not
> want to manually retype all of this, was wondering if screen had a feature
> like a virtual clipboard?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 
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 From the man page:

[snip]

copy

Enter  copy/scrollback mode. This allows you to copy text from the 
cur-rent window and its history into the paste buffer. In this mode a 
vi-ike `full screen editor' is active:

[/snip]


Check out the man page for further details:

	$ man screen


-Ash


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