Thank you Jim, I'm someone that shure will make grate use of that feature. Greg On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 02:08:35AM -0500, Jim Danley wrote: > The power to cut and paste has been added to Speakup! > > Have you ever needed to make note of a phone number, IP address, or long > URL displayed on the screen? Well, with the new cut and paste feature, > cutting text from the screen and pasting it into any application in any > console is now possible. > > You will need to checkout the latest CVS copy of speakup to enjoy this > new feature. > > There are two new default speakup keys reserved. The keypad divide key, > the one just right of the numlock key, is the mark/cut toggle. > The paste key is Insert keypad divide. > > Here is how it works. > > 1. Move reading cursor to one end of the block of text you wish to cut > 2. Press the mark/cut key. You should hear "mark". > 3. Move reading cursor to other end of block of text to be cut. > 4. Press the mark/cut key. You should hear "cut". > 5. The cut buffer is now saved. > 6. Move to a program in any console where you wish to copy the cut buffer. > 7. Press the paste key. You should hear "paste" and text from > the cut buffer will be output just as if you had entered it > at the keyboard. > > Note: Trailing whitespace is stripped and newlines added where appropriate. > > Cut and paste has been tested successfully on Linux kernel versions > 2.2.19 and 2.4.9. Enjoy! > > Jim Danley > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
