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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 04:59:38 JST Julia Evans

   before we had graphical terminals with a mouse, was there just.. no way to copy and paste between different terminal programs? for example if you wanted to take something a program printed out and pass it as an argument to another program, what would you do?

   was it "use some combination of redirects, pipes, $(), tab completion, !!, etc to make it work"? did people just retype things a lot? maybe `screen` helped?

   feels like being able to just copy and paste makes a lot of things so much easier.

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     Paul Hoffman (paulehoffman@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 12:52:54 JST Paul Hoffman

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     @b0rk Files. Which implies “remembering the name of that file long enough to import it into the other program” and, if you're lucky, “remembering to delete the file after you have imported it”.

     Mid-80's Word for MS-DOS made “put just the selected text into a file" fairly easy; IIRC, WordPerfect did not.

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