From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to copy and paste from unity to emacs in the terminal version ? Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 00:59:05 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8738csf5mu.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <8af43eeb-8822-4b82-88f3-a31c29276bcf@googlegroups.com> <7zmwb4vggo.fsf@example.com> <8de23d3b-1f0d-4fc4-b205-ab72946ab276@googlegroups.com> <7zy4ulojs7.fsf@example.com> <87siktfpbf.fsf@debian.uxu> <7z7g25za4u.fsf@example.com> <8738ctflj4.fsf@debian.uxu> <7zsiksvpg9.fsf@example.com> <87tx58fmqu.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408489228 4244 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2014 23:00:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 23:00:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 20 01:00:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJsO4-0006Tg-Vj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Aug 2014 01:00:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJsO4-0001qZ-JV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:00:20 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!nntpspool01.opticnetworks.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: P0uMB9BthHuWo8+BJXB4Mw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XCYCjrWiQ6IMzB8X9dK72BMQFBE= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207032 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:99309 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > I always said the Delhi oracle was more talented than > I... *Delphi :) There is also the matter of speed, the "interactive feel" someone mentioned. When I started with Linux I used gnome-terminal which was (is?) very slow. I could sense this because I had used the terminal on SunOS 5.10, which was invoked from Gnome just under the black-screen icon named "Terminal", so I don't know what it was. Anyway, I looked around and found rxvt which was much faster (that acronym is really telling, if you don't know it). I then switched to urxvt (or "rxvt-unicode") probably for Unicode support, and that was as fast as rxvt. Then I switched to the console which I experienced as as fast, perhaps marginally faster still. But the best thing was that it was distraction-free or almost so without that much configuration, and the configuration that remained come easy... well, relatively speaking. Now I use xterm in X which I also consider fast. If you are very sensitive to distractions this can actually be a way of getting super-focus, but only if you get rid of the distractions. If you can't, it is very bad. The console can be a quick and easy way. It all depends what you want and how sensitive you are (or "perceptive" if you prefer a word that rings positively). -- underground experts united