Terminal Text Fragment Drop Support Patch

Cortland Setlow cortland.setlow at gmail.com
Mon Sep 8 12:51:21 EDT 2008


Hi Eben,

It's one-way only, pasting into the Terminal.

--Cortland.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/8 Cortland Setlow <cortland.setlow at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Terminal really should support  dropping dev key commands, I think.
>  Here's
> > a patch to make it do so. Could we update the devkey page to explain
> > frame-based cut and paste?
>
> The current devkey hassles should be resolved in 9.1, when we will add
> a Security module to the control panel, including a section for dev
> keys.  This new interface will explain what a key is, offer a 'Request
> key" button, indicate progress, and automatically handle the
> installation of the new key when complete.
>
> This patch still sounds useful in general, though...every activity
> should support drag'n'drop copy and paste from the clipboard.  Does
> yours do  both directions?
>
> - Eben
>
>
> > Also,  I am looking for suggestions on how to upload patches from Sugar.
>  To
> > upload this one I created a Write document, quit Write, and used vi to
> edit
> > the newly-created datastore object.  Then the Web file picker could
> choose
> > it.
> >
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