[ale] HOW2 copy text from an Xwindow that is longer than a screenfull ?

[Michael Hirsch]

Jim's suggestion is good.  Another option is to use something other
than xterm.  For instance, konsole (the kde terminal) will scroll if
you select text and then drag off the top or bottom of the window,
allowing you to select arbitrarily large amounts of text.  Of use an X
emacs window (not emacs in text mode like in an xterm, but with its
own window).  Run a shell in emacs (M-x shell) and then run your
command in emacs.  The output all ends up  in a window.  The standard
emacs copy reagion command also put the text in the X buffer, allowing
you to middle click to paste it into another window.

Michael

On 4/29/05, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:19 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > I need to be able to copy a program's xterm screen output to another
> > program. That output is a lot longer than one screen full.
> >
> > I am using a vt100 terminal emulation xterm which permits selecting and
> > copying such output but said output is many screenfulls.
> >
> > For reasons I am neglecting, I need to not simply redirect this output
> > to a file and send the file.
> >
> > I need to be able to redirect the output to a file, cat the file, and
> > THEN select&copy the cat-ed file's output...to another program screen.
> >
> > Anyone know how to accomplish this ?
> 
> use an editor like vi or emacs on the first file to strip out the
> unwanted lines then cat the resulting file into the second program.
> 
> program1 > file1; vi file1; cat file1| program2
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Courtney
> >
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