[LUNI] capturing shell output in a cut/paste buffer

[Martin Maney]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:04:56AM -0400, Joe Frost wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:29 -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > Is there anyway to run a command and capture the output in a cut/paste buffer?
> 
> That's a neat idea, I'd love to hear if it's possible.

When I first read that request a moment ago, I wondered if he was using
emacs, in which case the answer would be trivial (to someone who's
emmorized all the arbitrary keystrokes, anyway.  I sometimes think that
I should try emacs with a horribly mappings, but then I think about how
useless all reference material would be, and realize that it's probably
a dead end.  irony, eh?).

But it's for a GUI, so you're limited to the things the guys who coded
the program thought you'd need.  So sad...

-- 
GUIs are just what some developer thinks you'll be needing  -- PJ