[developers] LkbFos: how to copy from the text area

[John Carroll]

I use an Apple Magic Mouse and this supports right-click in macOS. In mouse preferences, right-click by default is "Secondary click".

I've not managed to get Magic Mouse to generate a middle-click in Linux running in VirtualBox. Middle-click is needed for [incr tsdb()]. In the end I gave in and bought a cheap 3-button mouse just to get that gesture.

John

On 16 Sep 2020, at 16:18, Alexandre Rademaker <arademaker at gmail.com<mailto:arademaker at gmail.com>> wrote:


Thank you John. The shift-drag works nicely! I don’t know how to make the right-click on MacOS.

Best,
Alexandre

> On 16 Sep 2020, at 06:26, John Carroll <J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk<mailto:J.A.Carroll at sussex.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> In LkbFos you can copy from text-like windows such as Scoped MRS, Lkb Top etc. How to do this is different between macOS and Linux since they have different conceptions of copy/paste.
>
> macOS:
> 1. Shift-drag to highlight the text you want to copy; do this by holding down the shift key while dragging the mouse with the left button held down. Alternatively you can shift-left-click one end of the text and then shift-right-click the other end.
> 2. Type command-C (or select Copy from the XQuartz Edit menu). The text is now in the system clipboard and can be pasted in the normal way.
>
> Linux:
> 1. Shift-drag as above.
> 2. To paste the highlighted text, click the middle mouse button.
>
> I'll add these instructions to http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbFos<http://moin.delph-in.net/LkbFos>
>
> John

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