Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 18:05:16 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 September 2019 16:05:52 David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 13:16:28 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 02 September 2019 12:07:48 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 06:50:34 (-0400), Gene

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 September 2019 16:05:52 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 13:16:28 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 02 September 2019 12:07:48 David Wright wrote: > > > On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 06:50:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Monday 02 September 2019 03:10:08 Felix M

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 13:16:28 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 September 2019 12:07:48 David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 06:50:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 02 September 2019 03:10:08 Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:55 (UTC

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread Brian
On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 06:50:34 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > Since wheezy, the security paranoia knows no limits and does not care how > inconvenient they make it for the user. I am the ONLY user here, get Things have changed and improved since wheezy? How inconvenient for you! > this #

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 September 2019 12:07:48 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 06:50:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 02 September 2019 03:10:08 Felix Miata wrote: > > > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:55 (UTC-0400): > > > > That half a screen height jump is a huge distractio

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 06:50:34 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 September 2019 03:10:08 Felix Miata wrote: > > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:55 (UTC-0400): > > > That half a screen height jump is a huge distraction. > > > > It would if it happened here, but what half a screen ju

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Mon 02 Sep 2019 at 03:10:08 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:55 (UTC-0400): > > > That half a screen height jump is a huge distraction. > > It would if it happened here, but what half a screen jump? An up or down > arrow is > three lines here, would be one

OS paternalism - was {Re: nano copy/paste dead}

2019-09-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/02/2019 05:50 AM, Gene Heskett wrote in part: But no, someone has decreed that ssh isn't to be started until someone has gone to that machines own keyboard and logged in now. Then they decided ssh wasn't allowed to use x facilities as root. So if I'm working on a machine out in the shed

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 September 2019 03:10:08 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:55 (UTC-0400): > > That half a screen height jump is a huge distraction. > > It would if it happened here, but what half a screen jump? An up or > down arrow is three lines here, would be one, like it

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-02 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:55 (UTC-0400): > That half a screen height jump is a huge distraction. It would if it happened here, but what half a screen jump? An up or down arrow is three lines here, would be one, like it used to be, if I could find a way to undo the intentional regr

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 September 2019 02:16:36 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:03 (UTC-0400): > > I've enabled a bunch of options that make nano a better editor, like > > line numbers and smooth scrolling so you can better > > Smooth scrolling doesn't make anything better. it s

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 September 2019 02:16:25 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-09-02 02:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I've enabled a bunch of options that make nano a better editor, like > > line numbers and smooth scrolling so you can better track where you > > are in a file. But it appears I have also

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-01 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-09-02 02:03 (UTC-0400): > I've enabled a bunch of options that make nano a better editor, like line > numbers and smooth scrolling so you can better Smooth scrolling doesn't make anything better. It does cause more need to find dumb defaults to negate. Do your opti

Re: nano copy/paste dead

2019-09-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-09-02 02:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I've enabled a bunch of options that make nano a better editor, like line > numbers and smooth scrolling so you can better track where you are in a > file. But it appears I have also killed the ability to MMB paste from > adjacent terminals into a