Re: copy/paste model in exmh

Things don't work right the other way (copying FROM exmh), either.

My home e-mail is exmh on Solaris.  I access it at work by VNC'ing into the
Solaris box.  But when a URL is in the e-mail, I'd usually like to get at
it from work instead of home, so I want to cut-n-paste the URL.

VNC and Windows get along fine -- left-highlight something in xterm and you
can paste it on Windows; "Copy" something on Windows and you can middle-
button it into an Xterm.

But highlight something in exmh, and who knows what happens to it.  When I
try to paste it on the Windows side, it's not in the clipboard.  But if I
middle-button it in an xterm, it is.  So my procedure to copy a URL from
exmh through VNC to Windows has become:

  1. Highlight URL in e-mail message in exmh
  2. Go to xterm window
  3. Type "cat > /dev/null"
  4. Middle-button paste the url into the xterm window
  5. Highlight the url in the xterm window (usually triple-click does it)
  6. Type CTRL-V or SHIFT-INSERT on Windows to paste it

I've never bothered to figure this out... it works for me.  It's weird, but
it's no weirder than any of the other cut/paste stuff in exmh.

--Dave