Can I copy terminal text to the forum board as Quotes

[reb]

Frequently I find I would like to show text from my Terminal window, to my questions and answers, on this forum board in a Quote box?

Can it be done?   If so, how?

reb

[lagagnon]

Highlight the text in the terminal (or any window for that matter), navigate to the other window where you want the text and paste that text in with your middle mouse button. Cool eh? Another great advantage of the Unixes/Linux over MS Windows....

[toothandnail]

Frequently I find I would like to show text from my Terminal window, to my questions and answers, on this forum board in a Quote box?

Can it be done?   If so, how?

Yes, though I suspect you probably mean a code box rather than a quote box. Highlight the text with your mouse, then either use the middle button or right-click > paste. To get the text into a code box, use  (open square bracket)code(close square bracket) to start and (open square bracket)/code(close square bracket) to finish.

  That was interesting to enter, since any attempt to use the sequence results in text partially in a code box, but doesn't make any sense at all...

paul.

[reb]

It Worked !!!!!

If this keeps you people will make a VL user out of me yet 

Thanks to both of you, lagagnon and toothandnail.

I tried the easy way from lagagnon first and it worked slick.  Amazing how easy things are when you KNOW how to do it.  It just goes to point out that the only difference between a genesis and a plebeian is how much one knows. 

thanks again people

reb

[kidd]

Maybe it's beyond the purpose of the OP, but it's always good to have more info than needed.
There's a console program named xclip (http://people.debian.org/~kims/xclip/), that allows you to automate the interface to the clipboard (both clipboards). 

for example:
> ifconfig | xclip

will copy the output to the clipboard, then, when you're on the forum textarea, just press shift+ins.

Congratulations, you've done a mouseless paste!

HTH

[reb]

Hey Kidd,

I like that one too.  It just proves there are more ways to Rome than just  crossing the Alps, 

thanks much

reb