Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <512EBEF97F02D311B89900A0C9D1776009D88D@thor.operations.bluestone.com> From: "Halim, Salman" To: "''cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com' '" Subject: RE: keyboard paste from clipboard into bash Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:39:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" from my .inputrc: "\C-p": paste-from-clipboard guess what hitting ctrl-p on the command-line does. . . i do use bash 2.04b2, so that may make a difference. regards, salman. -----Original Message----- From: Earnie Boyd To: Kevin Schnitzius; 'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com' Sent: 1/25/00 8:28 AM Subject: RE: keyboard paste from clipboard into bash I don't know if he cured the keyboard paste you want, but you might want to check out Paul Sokolovsky's Readline-2.0 native Mingw port at http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/readline/ . Earnie. --- Kevin Schnitzius wrote: > The windows code is cake. Bash/readline code is heinous. > > Anyone craw through that code before who could save me some time figuring it > out? > > Kevin > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com] > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 19:41 > To: Kevin Schnitzius > Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Re: keyboard paste from clipboard into bash > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 06:10:59PM -0500, Kevin Schnitzius wrote: > >Is there a way to do this? > > No. > > >When I have my hands on the keyboard, I don't want to reach for the mouse > to > >do a paste and Alt-space, e, p is awkward. > > > >Would it be possible to extend bash to pick up a single char paste? > > Yes. Certainly. It will require a knowledge of Windows and bash, of > course. If you come up with a patch, you should definitely submit this > to the bash maintainer. > > cgf > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com