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Re: Selecting entire message text at once?



* David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [07-18-04 18:44]:
> * On 2004.07.18, in <20040718232947.GL16384@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> *     "Thorsten Haude" <mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > There is something in Mutt that hints at some knowledge about this.
> > When I select part of a mail and use Mutt's scroll to display another
> > part of the mail, the selection is moving.
> 
> Hmm. Silly that I didn't think of this. I find that the curses window
> prevents my xterm scrollback from showing parts of the message that
> have passed already, but certainly you can pipe the message into "cat"
> or "more" and select from backscroll that way, while mutt is waiting
> for a keypress.
> 
> I guess I just like the xcb/clipboard approach. :)
 
Or, perhaps, xless


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