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From: Patrick Gen-Paul <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line
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brownh wrote:
> Often, when composing a message, I want to past an address in the To:
> line without using my mouse. However, the usual C-y or C-v keyboard
> commands don't work. Any suggestions?
What terminal are you running mutt in?
How do you select the address you want to paste?
Where are you copying from - same mutt session, an address book running in
another terminal?
Are you running a "Desktop environment"?
I run mutt under gnu/screen, a terminal multiplexer that provides a
powerful copy/paste mechanism between "windows".
You may want to read this:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935
> If I may, a minor secondary question. When I type in an address on the
> To: line, the insertion point is not visible. This is annoying when I
> need to go back to correct a typo. I don't know where I am so that I
> can do a DEL or type at the right place. Can I change this behavior?
Does not happen here in an xterm.
If the "To:" line is at the bottom of the screen, I have seen something
similar on the linux (framebuffer) console. In the case of a bash shell, a
Ctrl-L would re-display the screen with the command input line at the top
of the screen and make the cursor visible again. Not that this would help
with mutt, of course.
Otherwise if your default cursor is of the "underline" type, you could
check whether your terminal has an option to set it to something more
visible such as a block cursor?
Gen-Paul.
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