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diff --git a/historic/selection/selection.1.old b/historic/selection/selection.1.old deleted file mode 100644 index fdc76af52..000000000 --- a/historic/selection/selection.1.old +++ /dev/null @@ -1,139 +0,0 @@ -.\" -.\" 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. |