Re: copy-paste

Robert G. Werner (rwerner@lx1.microbsys.com)
Thu, 20 May 1999 23:44:41 -0700 (PDT)


or type in a terminal window cat > something.txt
copy your words with the traditional "X11 middle button suffle" (I'm a poet
and you wouldn't even know it ;-). then open that file in Abiword ...
OK this is getting complicated but it just goes to show that TITMTOWTDI

Robert G. Werner
rwerner@lx1.microbsys.com
Impeach Conggress!!

You had mail. Paul read it, so ask him what it said.

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Steve Willer wrote:

>
> On Thu, 20 May 1999, Larry Kollar wrote:
>
> > 1 Arrange your AbiWord and mail windows so that you can see them both.
> > Put the mail window on top.
> >
> > 2 Select the text that you want to print.
> >
> > 3 Click the *middle* mouse button over the AbiWord window. This should
> > paste the selected text into AbiWord.
> >
> > If it doesn't work, the only thing I can suggest is to wait for 1.0 or
> > use a different word processor for now.
>
> Or paste into 'lpr'.
>



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