On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:35:34 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > 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. Thanks. This is for sure better then my first shot.