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RE: keyboard paste from clipboard into bash
- To: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: keyboard paste from clipboard into bash
- From: Kevin Schnitzius <kevin dot schnitzius at citrix dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:07:33 -0500
The windows code is cake. Bash/readline code is heinous.
Anyone craw through that code before who could save me some time figuring it
out?
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com]
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 19:41
To: Kevin Schnitzius
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: keyboard paste from clipboard into bash
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 06:10:59PM -0500, Kevin Schnitzius wrote:
>Is there a way to do this?
No.
>When I have my hands on the keyboard, I don't want to reach for the mouse
to
>do a paste and Alt-space, e, p is awkward.
>
>Would it be possible to extend bash to pick up a single char paste?
Yes. Certainly. It will require a knowledge of Windows and bash, of
course. If you come up with a patch, you should definitely submit this
to the bash maintainer.
cgf
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