Re: terminals and urls and copying

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From: Yoz Grahame
Subject: Re: terminals and urls and copying
Date: 18:23 on 24 Mar 2004

Simon Wistow wrote:
> 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.

Easily the nicest solution to this I've seen is in the Windows MUSH/MOO 
client SimpleMU, which will stop scrolling as soon as you select any 
text, but will indicate the arrival of new text below by:
a) a flashing down-arrow in the bottom-right corner
b) the scroll bar moving upwards as the buffer grows below it

PuTTY is nearly as good, in that it will freeze any scrolling while 
you're selecting, and the selected text will stay in the copy buffer 
even if it scrolls offscreen.

-- Yoz

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- terminals and urls and copying Simon Wistow 18:08 on 24 Mar 2004
  - Re: terminals and urls and copying Yoz Grahame 18:23 on 24 Mar 2004
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  - peter (Peter da Silva) 18:40 on 24 Mar 2004
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  - Luke A. Kanies 19:37 on 24 Mar 2004
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