[Techtalk] cut off man pages

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Tue Dec 30 11:46:37 EST 2003


On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 07:35:51AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Raquel Rice thought:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:55:28 +0600
> Noir <acknak_halflife at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I, sometimes, have to take notes off man pages. I was wondering if
> > there's any way I can *copy* specific parts/ lines of man pages
> > and *paste* it in another text file while being in the console
> > mode. I use vim
> > 6.1.
> 
> Are you using vim under X?  If you are, Linux makes copying and
> pasting is easy.  Highlighting text automatically copies it to the
> Linux "clipboard", then clicking with the center mouse button pastes
> what's in the clipboard.

And in console, if gpm[0] is running, it's the same.

Conor

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