terminals and urls and copying

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: terminals and urls and copying
Date: 18:08 on 24 Mar 2004
Terminals seem to be another of those things that you'd think would be
really simple (display text and, err, that's about it) but are actually
a bottomless pit of hate situated in the Mountains of Loathing, deep 
within the steamy Destest Jungle on the Island of 
F&*CKINGPIECEOFSHIT!!@$%

This has been documented elsewhere.

There is much hate to be mined from that pit. It would be greedy, nay 
foolish to mine it all at once. I shall instead hack off a sliver of 
purest hate and cray it back from the pit, over the mountains, through 
the jungle and row away from the island merely to deliver it to you, my 
fellows Haters.

This Hate, and a succulent morsel it is too, is concerned with urls in 
terminals.

Some terminals highlight a URL that scrolls past and allow you to double 
click on it and it will be loade din a browser. They ones that do that 
have, in my experience, many other, often unrelated hates which 
preclude's their use. But thi is fine since I can just highlight the URL 
like so and switch to my other window and paste it into my browser's URL 
bar. No great hardship.

But wait! What's this? I have pasted blank *cough*

I go back. I look again. Oh, I see, it was in an IRC window and somebody 
has said something so the line I highlighted has moved up. 

CLEARLY THIS MEANT THAT YOU SHOULD CLEAR THE CLIPBOARD. YOU PIECE OF 
SHIT.

There may be technical reasons why it does this. I care not. I just want
to be able to copy something out of scrolling window (tailing a log,
output of a make, etc etc) without having to do some insane dance.

*sigh*

-- 
gap wearing anarchist

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