Copy and paste from Dit from and to outside

[ooker777]

Hi, I would like to copy a word or phrase from Dit to other application, such as Firefox and vice versa. Is there a way to do so?

Thank you.

[hishamhm]

You can copy and paste to/from ncurses applications such as Dit holding the Shift and selecting to copy, and holding Shift and pressing the middle button of the mouse to paste. (I think this can vary from terminal to terminal.)

[ooker777]

No, I mean the shortcut to cut, copy and paste. In Dit, when I use Ctrl+Shift+C to
copy then paste to outside it (Firefox for example), the only sequence I get is
********. Copy text from outside then paste it on Dit by using Ctrl+Shift+V works as

expected.

Ooker.

You can copy and paste to/from ncurses applications such as Dit holding the Shift
and selecting to copy, and holding Shift and pressing the middle button of the
mouse to paste. (I think this can vary from terminal to terminal.)
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[hishamhm]

That's because Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shfit+V are provided by your terminal, not by Dit.

There's a "hidden" feature to workaround this, but it's not enabled by default. Edit dit.c and change static int xclipOk = 0 to static int xclipOk = 1; then install the xclip application and see if Ctrl+C copies to the X11 clipboard as you'd like. If it doesn't change, popen("xclip -i 2> /dev/null", "w") to popen("xclip -i -selection clipboard 2> /dev/null", "w")

Let me know your results!

[ooker777]

The result is better. The pasted text is not "*******" anymore. However sometimes I

can only paste from Dit to the outside, sometimes reverse work, not both of them.

Ooker.

That's because Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shfit+V are provided by your terminal, not by
Dit.
There's a "hidden" feature to workaround this, but it's not enabled by default. Edit
dit.c and change static int xclipOk = 0 to static int xclipOk = 1; then install the xclip
application and see if Ctrl+C copies to the X11 clipboard as you'd like. If it doesn't
change, popen("xclip -i 2> /dev/null", "w") to popen("xclip -i -selection clipboard 2>
/dev/null", "w")
Let me know your results!
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[hishamhm]

I have some ideas how to improve this, but for now you'll have to use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste from the outside world; Ctrl+V will only paste the last thing copied from inside Dit.

[ooker777]

OK, I'll wait for the next release, thank you so much :D

Ooker.

I have some ideas how to improve this, but for now you'll have to use Ctrl+Shift+V to
paste from the outside world; Ctrl+V will only paste the last thing copied from inside
Dit.
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