Enter the beginning of the text you wish to copy and the find feature will select it in your window. To select text without using the mouse, press cmd-f to open the find field. You can use the find feature's 'mouseless copy' feature. A Custom Functionĭeveloping on the quick solution,here is a small function I wrote which is pretty smart and will copy the last used command. There are several ways to select text to copy to the clipboard: You can use the mouse. Just run this command and it will copy the command you just ran to the clipboard.īasically, what it does is that it prints your command history and takes the second last command and feeds it to your clipboard (the last command is this itself, so it selects the second last command). history | tail -2 | head -1 | xclip -selection clipboard If you now hit Up you can run it on the new has suggested a good solution but it breaks often. Now when you run a long command line, you can switch to another terminal and hit return (just to run $PROMT_COMMAND, alternatively, open a new terminal window) and it will be accessible to this terminal's history. This means that every command you run will be immediately written to the history file. history -a will write the history of the current session to the history file and history -r will reload that file. If it is set the value is executed as a command before issuing a new prompt. PROMPT_COMMAND is a special bash variable. Add this line to your ~/.bashrc: PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a history -r' You can also save commands across terminals using bash's history. You can paste into the same terminal, simply by killing (cutting) the command with Ctrl K and then pasting with Ctrl Y. You can paste into another terminal by running: $ xclip -o If you want to paste without using a mouse, it will depend on where you are pasting. You now have "This is a long command line" in your middle click clipboard. Lately I’ve taken an interest in the Rust programming language.I read the epub version of the Rust book over summer and found it quite well-written and overall interesting.
#MOUSELESS COPY HOW TO#
Type Ctrl A to go to the beginning of the line, enclose the command in quotes then echo it: $ echo -e "This is a long command line" |xclip How to set up a mouseless development environment for Rust. For example : $ This is a long command line Unfortunately, this won't work in your mysql environment (it has its own buffer for copied lines) but it will if you want to run a 'normal' command. Once you have installed it, you can use it to connect to your X clipboard. Xclip - command line interface to X selections (clip‐ You can do this using a program like xclip: NAME
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