Re: is there some copy / paste functionality readline thingy ?

[#!microsuxx]

i got to c@ , reading , will try later ..
thxx ..

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 2:09 AM #!microsuxx <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:

> there is
> unix-word-rubout and unix-filename-rubout
> and no shell related ? like include quotes or such ?
>
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 1:47 AM #!microsuxx <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> im slowly getting it .. just checking the url ..
>> rereading the email makes much more sense than some days ago
>>
>> ++ , greets ..
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2024, 3:54 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/7/24 5:52 PM, #!microsuxx wrote:
>>> > like , copy cmdline , copy from cursor to back , copy from cursor to
>>> front
>>>
>>> Readline maintains what it calls a `kill ring' (the concept is decades
>>> old and the terminology originates with emacs), which commands can add
>>> to,
>>> and which can be `yanked' into the line at the current cursor position.
>>> This all basically corresponds to cut/copy/paste and a `clipboard'
>>> as you refer to it.
>>>
>>> Look at the readline user manual:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rluserman.html#Commands-For-Killing
>>>
>>> So, for example, in emacs mode, ^K^Y is an easy way to `copy' the text
>>> between the cursor and the end of the line into the kill ring: you kill
>>> the text, which deletes it from the line and copies it to the kill ring,
>>> then immediately yank it back into the line. The cursor position does
>>> move. You can do the same thing for the text between the cursor and the
>>> beginning of the line with ^U^Y.
>>>
>>> You can use the concept of the region to copy arbitrary sections of the
>>> input line to the kill ring. Set the mark (saved cursor position) using
>>> ^@, move the cursor to where you want, and invoke the copy-region-as-kill
>>> readline command (unbound by default) to copy the text between the point
>>> and mark -- the region -- to the kill ring.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>>>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>>> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu
>>> http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
>>>
>>