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diff --git a/historic/selection/selection.1.old b/historic/selection/selection.1.old new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fdc76af52 --- /dev/null +++ b/historic/selection/selection.1.old @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ +.\" +.\" selection.1 - the cut and paste utility for Linux virtual consoles +.\" +.\" Modified by faith@cs.unc.edu +.\" +.TH SELECTION 1 "20 November 1993" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +selection - the cut and paste utility for Linux virtual consoles +.SH SYNTAX +\fBselection [-a accel] [-b baud-rate] [-c l|m|r] [-d delta] [-m mouse-device] [-p l|m|r] [-s sample-rate] [-t mouse-type]\fR +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fBselection\fR is a utility that allows characters to be selected from the +current Linux virtual console using the mouse and pasted into the current +console. \fBselection\fR is normally invoked at boot time from /etc/rc.local, +and runs as a background process. +.SH OPTIONS +.IP \fB\-a\fP\fIaccel\fP +movements of more than \fIdelta\fP pixels are multiplied by \fIaccel\fP (default 2) +.IP \fB\-b\fP\fIbaud-rate\fP +set the baud rate of the mouse (default 1200 baud) +.IP \fB\-c\fP\fIl|m|r\fP +set the copy button to be the left, middle or right button (default left) +.IP \fB\-d\fP\fIdelta\fP +movements of more than \fIdelta\fP pixels are multiplied by \fIaccel\fP +(default 25) +.IP \fB\-m\fP\fImouse-device\fP +specify the mouse device (default /dev/mouse) +.IP \fB\-p\fP\fIl|m|r\fP +set the paste button to be the left, middle or right button (default right) +.IP \fB\-s\fP\fIsample-rate\fP +set the sample rate of the mouse (default 100) +.IP \fB\-t\fP\fImouse-type\fP +specify the mouse type (Microsoft = `ms', Mouse Systems Corp = `msc', +MM Series = `mm', Logitech = `logi', BusMouse = `bm', +MSC 3-bytes = `sun', PS/2 = `ps2'; default = ms) +.SH OPERATION +To invoke the selection mechanism, press and release the copy button +(the meaning of the buttons may be set at startup as above). A highlighted +block will start moving around the screen, correlated with the movement of the +mouse. +.PP +Move the block to the first character of the selection, then press and hold +down the copy button. +.PP +Drag out the selection; the selected text will be highlighted. Then release +the copy button. You can take the end of the selection to before the start of +the selection if necessary. +.PP +Double-clicking the copy button while the highlighted block is on the +screen selects text by word boundaries; treble-clicking selects by entire +lines. If the button is held down after double- or treble-clicking, multiple +words or lines may be selected. A word consists of a set of alphanumeric +characters and underscores. +.PP +If a trailing space after the contents of a line is highlighted, and if there +is no other text on the remainder of the line, the rest of the line will be +selected automatically. If a number of lines are selected, highlighted +trailing spaces on each line will be removed from the selection buffer. +.PP +Pressing the paste button in any virtual console pastes the +selected text into the read queue of the associated tty. +.PP +Any output on the virtual console holding the selection will clear the +highlighted selection from the screen, to maintain integrity of the display, +although the contents of the paste buffer will be unaffected. +.PP +The selection mechanism is disabled if the controlling virtual console is +placed in graphics mode, for example when running X11, and is re-enabled when +text mode is resumed. (But see BUGS section below.) +.SH FILES +/dev/mouse - default mouse device +.br +/dev/tty0 - current VC device +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +\fBselection\fR complains if any of the devices it requires cannot be located. +.SH BUGS +The size of the paste buffer is set at 2048 bytes by default. This may be +changed at compile time; consult the installation notes. +.PP +The selection mechanism doesn't work very well with graphics characters, or +indeed with any characters where a mapping between the typed character and +the displayed character is performed by the console driver. The selection +mechanism pastes into the input buffer the character codes as they are +displayed on the screen, not those originally typed in by the user. +.PP +Because of the way that the kernel bus mouse drivers work, allowing only one +process to have the mouse device open at once, \fBselection\fR cannot +co-exist with X11 using ATI XL, Logitech and Microsoft bus mice or with a +PS/2 mouse. The X server will not start while \fBselection\fR is running. +This problem is not present with serial mice. +.SH AUTHOR +.nf +Andrew Haylett <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk> +.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS +.nf +Lefty patches originally suggested by: +.ti +4 +Sotiris C. Vassilopoulos <scv2f@edu.Virginia.acc.honi4> +.br +Logitech patches from: +.ti +4 +Jim Winstead Jr <jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> +.br +Command line options based on those from: +.ti +4 +Peter Macdonald <pmacdona@sanjuan> +.br +Patches for bus mouse from: +.br +.ti +4 +Erik Troan <ewtroan@eos.ncsu.edu> +.br +.ti +4 +Christoph Niemann <niemann@rubdv15.etdv.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> +.br +.ti +4 +Koen Gadeyne <kmg@barco.be> +.br +Patches for PS/2 mouse from: +.br +.ti +4 +Hans D. Fink +.br +Patches for Sun mouse from: +.br +.ti +4 +Michael Haardt <michael@gandalf.moria> +.br +Run-time configurable mouse buttons suggested by: +.br +.ti +4 +Charlie Brady <charlieb@au.oz.tpl.tplrd> +.br +Setsid patches by: +.bt +.ti +4 +Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com> +.sp +Apologies to any contributors whose names I have omitted. |