Thursday, October 14, 2010

Copying text from mcedit to system clipboard

Just press Shift key while blocking the text in mcedit, or copy item in popup menu will remain inactive on right click. :P
Without pressing Shift key:

With pressing Shift key:

8 comments:

  1. What are you using for a terminal here?
    In my case I'm trying to get mcedit text into Windows clipboard. Using Putty as terminal.

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  2. Nevermind. Just found my answer. In Putty, you just shift+mousedrag. Text is automatically copied into the clipboard with no additional keystrokes or clicks.

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  3. For those ones running mc in text console (Alt-F1) with mc in repo still having no support of X clipboard, maybe this short script would be usefull:
    http://denis.ryzhkov.org/soft/xclip-sync-mcedit/xclip-sync-mcedit.py
    It runs in background syncing clipboards of X and mcedit completely automatically.

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  4. Consider giving far2l a try, it has mc-like user interface and supports clipobard well (even through ssh if far2l is also installed on the server side). https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

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