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Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim
Date 2024-02-06 17:10 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 03:36:23PM +0000, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> I know I don't like xterm so I never use it. I mainly use lxterminal
> and sometimes gnome-terminal but they both must be 'exotic' since they
> behave as David said.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libvte-2.91-0 libvte-2.91-common lxterminal

Hmm, OK, that's not bad.

First thing I try: Ctrl-v Ctrl-v (at a bash prompt).  This gives ^V as
expected.

Second thing I try: Ctrl-v Shift-Ctrl-v.  This gives a long-ish paste
of what appears to be base64-encoded content, but beginning with ^[[200~
(start of bracketed paste).  There's probably another escape sequence
at the end (end of bracketed paste?) but with no Ctrl-V acting upon it,
it's not visible.

So I guess this Shift-Ctrl-v is something that's handled directly by
the terminal emulator, and does *not* result in a byte sequence that's
interpreted by the application.  That answers one of my questions, at
least.

There is ... almost no documentation, however.  "man lxterminal" gives
a stub man page written by the Debian maintainer.  The /usr/share/doc
directory is barren as well:

unicorn:/usr/share/doc/lxterminal$ ls
changelog.Debian.gz  changelog.gz  copyright

So I guess people learn about lxterminal features like Shift-Ctrl-v by
word of mouth...?

The terminal has a menu bar with a Help option.  The Help menu has exactly
one choice: About.  About gives a popup window with a link to
<http://www.lxde.org/>.  Going there and clicking the WIKI button
leads me to <https://wiki.lxde.org/en/> which is a 404 page.

*sigh*

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Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 00:20 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-02-06 00:50 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 01:30 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-02-06 02:10 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 08:10 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-02-06 12:40 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 13:50 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:10 +0100
          Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-07 13:30 +0100
            Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 13:50 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 04:10 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 07:30 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 13:30 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 15:40 +0100
          Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 16:00 +0100
            Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 18:10 +0100
              Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-06 18:40 +0100
                xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and  paste into Terminal with Vim] Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 04:30 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from  Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim] Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2024-02-07 13:30 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim] Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-02-07 14:20 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from  Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim] debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-02-07 21:20 +0100
                Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox  and paste into Terminal with Vim] Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 18:10 +0100
                C-Ins vs. C-c [was: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection] Firefox  and paste into Terminal with Vim] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-07 19:50 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-02-06 16:40 +0100
          Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-02-06 17:10 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:30 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 15:30 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 09:30 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-06 06:50 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-06 08:10 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-06 09:00 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Klaus Singvogel <deb-user-ml@singvogel.net> - 2024-02-06 09:20 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:30 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-02-06 14:50 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:50 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-02-06 13:00 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-06 15:40 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-02-06 15:40 +0100
      Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Ralph Aichinger <ra@h5.or.at> - 2024-02-06 19:00 +0100
        Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-02-07 04:30 +0100
    Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 08:40 +0100
  Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-02-07 07:40 +0100

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