On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 06:23 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Boy, what's an opportunity to exercise my typing. I'm working in tty > now. :-( > > Is there any way to use cut-and-paste to compile the list and then to > copy it into a command line? > You could pipe the list of installed packages (from pacman.log or from pacman -Qg) to a file and then edit it with vim.