I think it'll be difficult to do much with xterm. With konsole, and with openoffice.org, I did have some luck. For instance, I opened both openoffice.org, and konsole, and typed some stuff in openoffice. I then pressed F8, allowing for keyboard selection, and then pressed the arrow keys to select some of the text that I typed. I then copied this selection with Ctrl-C. Then, pressing Alt-Tab (or Alt-Shift-Tab), I selected konsole. I used konsole's paste keybinding (Shift-Insert) to paste the selected text from openoffice.org into konsole. So, using only a keyboard, I was able to select some specifically chosen text from a program (OOo), and paste it into a terminal (konsole).
The problem, though, is many programs don't have such key bindings associated with them. I don't think xterm has any capacity for pasting besides using the middle mouse button. And programs that can select text via a keyboard (other than select all, which is usally Ctrl-A) for copying are quite rare.
(later..) I found something
else. Using xclip (you'd need to install this program), you can copy and paste to different xterms. For instance:
Code:
mark@debian:~$ echo Hello World | xclip -i
mark@debian:~$ xclip -o
Hello World
This works whether it is with the same xterm, or if it is between two different xterms.
It can be done from xterm to other programs, too, with the following:
Code:
echo Hello World | xclip -i -selection clipboard
This will copy the typed phrase ("Hello World") onto the clipboard. Then, you can paste this phase into any text program, such as gedit, or openoffice.org, via Ctrl-V. This doesn't work between different xterms, though (it ends up copying the entire line, for some reason).
Note: the keybindings I described above were while using fluxbox. They're reasonably common keybindings (IE, Ctrl-V for paste), but these may be different for whatever tiling window manager you're using.
Is there terminal program that supports copy&paste with keyboard (read for specifics)
