From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 11:13:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AB437B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 11:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7726F5F61; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:13:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:13:38 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com To: Chip Wiegand Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: HTML editor In-Reply-To: <20010416233255.204dd527.chip@wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Chip Wiegand wrote: :I know how to copy/cut and paste within vi, but haven't figured out how :to get text copied from my email program into vi. I am using sylpheed (a :gtk+ app) for my email client. Someone else suggested having xclipboard :handy, so I'll see about that. Unless you can tell me how to copy/paste :from an X gui app into vi? : High-light the text in whatever application, middle click in vi, realize that vi wasn't in append mode, undo the changes, put vi in append mode, middle click again. I sometimes have problems pasting from netscape, nut other than that, it works fine. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message