On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:41:41AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> learned this quite by accident. thought i'd share it.
>
> you all know that ^w will delete a word, so
>
> % hello dolly^w --> % hello
>
> and ^u will delete a whole line:
>
> % hello dolly^u --> %
>
> well, i was after ^u and hit ^y instead. apparently, if ^w and ^u are "cut"
> then ^y is "paste". so, from the above examples:
>
> % hello dolly^w --> % hello
> % hello^y --> % hello dolly
>
> you get the picture. this past is facilitated by the shell, so you have
> different "clipboards" for each virtual console.
>
> i don't have X booted, but my guess is since each xterm is another shell
> instance, each xterm would also have its own clipboard.
>
> pete
Yeah, and if you were an emacs-user, you'd know this already! :-P
BTW, I thought you were using the vi-mode for readline?
Micah
