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
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