xterm question
Chad Perrin
perrin at apotheon.com
Mon Feb 4 10:35:47 UTC 2008
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:41:13AM +0000, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> it's a stupid little question really but I have an xterm filled with a
> log file (telnetted into another machine) which is scrolled off the
> screen. How do I select all the text in one go? I only seem to be able
> to select the visible screenful, copy, paste into text file, scroll up,
> select the next screenful etc. I want the screen to scroll when the
> mouse pointer hits the top or bottom of the window.
>
> The best I've done so far is script - it works but it's messy.
Try the x11/xclip port. I use it quite a bit -- works beautifully.
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