Subject: Re: PCVT stuff, tabstops, lockout, text-mode mouse?
To: VaX#n8 <vax@linkdead.paranoia.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/16/1996 08:33:29
>I've got a few probs with PCVT (which is, I might add, extremely useful -
>don't know how I got by without it or X).
[...]
>Also, how hard would it be to add a text-mode mouse cursor that supports
>cut & paste?  Linux has this & I bet it's pretty nice (sorry, iscreen
>hurts my ctrl-A fingers).  I might be willing to do it if the learning
>curve isn't too bad.

Get the program "screen".  Not only does it do rectangular cut and
pastes, but it has a ton of other useful features that many people
find totally indispensible.  You can run screen under PCVT very
easily.

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