On Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:33:21 +0100 [email protected] (akhiezer) wrote: > > From: Hazel Russman <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 11:28:52 +0100 > > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Glib-2.48.2 tests hang > > > . > . > > I'm working in chroot because I want to be able to copy and paste from > > the book, which for some reason stopped working in text-based Links > > a couple of years ago. I know from earlier posts that other people do > > this too in the early stages of BLFS. Perhaps a warning note might be > > useful here. > > > > > links: > * copy: hold down shift key while highlighting. > * paste: hold down shift key while middle-click (or whatever mouse btn > you've got 'paste' mapped to). > > > > hth, > > akh Thanks, akh. That's a life-saver. I was using it all yesterday evening. btw you don't need to use the shift key when pasting into a console, just middle-click. It was the copy operation that stymied me.
Just for the record, I installed shared-mime-info and then ran the glib tests again. This made the paired errors on "contenttype" and "appinfo" disappear. Only a pair of errors on the "regexp" test were left. These are test errors, not failures, so I regard them as the developer's problem and not mine. Ed Batalha suggested using lynx rather than links. I assume he meant that it's easier to copy from. But if you're used to using links, lynx is completely impossible. It's too similar without being the same. I did once attempt to use it and it nearly drove me crazy. Hazel -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
