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TRN
11-24-2002, 10:15 AM
An individual emailed the other day asking the best way to copy text from an html document within a browser and pasting a copy of this text into an office document. Specifically he was trying to get the text and the hyperlinks. Unfortunately, I was not able to help. This works in MS Windows but I'm not sure how to do it on a GNU/Linux system.

Maybe someone else knows? ( Sorry too lazy to search google )
TRN
12-04-2002, 05:08 PM
This question bothered me for a few reasons --

(1) I didn't have an obvious answer to the quesiton.

(2) Only a few others even read this question and of those few who read it -- none posted a suggestion :-(

HOWEVER

It came to me last night that maybe Mozilla Composer is the best solution. I just tested this and sure enough it works.

Highlight the text.
Ctrl-C to copy
Click onto a new document in Mozilla Composer
Ctrl-V to paste

All links are transfered to the document created in Composer. It is then possible to save the document in the directory of your choice.
TRN
12-04-2002, 05:16 PM
Highlight the text.
Ctrl-C to copy
Click onto a new document in Mozilla Composer
Ctrl-V to paste



No, the mouse on this particular machine is two buttons. If this was a scroll mouse then I'd try the hightlighting of the text and then use the middle mouse button to paste a copy.
robbie_n
12-04-2002, 07:33 PM
Didn't see this thread.

X can be configured so that clicking the two mouse buttons together is processed as a middle mouse button click. Then you just highlight the text, go to the destination and use Old Faithful.
TRN
12-05-2002, 05:50 AM
Didn't see this thread.

X can be configured so that clicking the two mouse buttons together is processed as a middle mouse button click. Then you just highlight the text, go to the destination and use Old Faithful.

Right. But I'm not that coordinated. :-(

It's just easier for me to use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.... accept when Klipper is active. It's always getting in my way of clipping quickly.
juanito777
03-30-2003, 09:37 PM
A neat trick I learned with Mozilla : After you have done the cut and paste of the text, you can click "View source" then cut and paste again, to have the actual code of the hyperlinks to paste into an HTML editor or text editor for a web page.
redoscar
03-31-2003, 04:32 AM
I believe these keyboard equivalents are holdovers from the old WordStar days.

Ctrl-X = cut
Ctrl-C = copy
Ctrl-V = paste

Actually, I can remember using these things on my Atari 800 long ago. Back then, it was about all we had! :)

Red