Re: [RP] Rant. (Re: LP interview, irclog)

[sabetts]

At Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:10:31 +1000 , Ben Leslie <address@hidden> wrote: 

>On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, shawn wrote:
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>> >There is some alternative way to "cut'n'paste" in X?  For instance, say,
>> >an url from gnus into a netscape/mozilla browser window?  Please share!
>> 
>> With XTest you could write some code in ratpoison to 'stuff' the
>> keyboard with the current clipboard. This would be nice. As far as I
>> know, the most commonly supported way is to press the middle mouse
>> button (works in 'scrape and xterms), but that's not really a
>> solution.
>
>
>Netscape and the clipboard are the main reason I still need to mouse
>(which is the reason for my other email re: mouse focus for split windows).
>
>Emacs is all good and well but w3 mode really sucks. Slow to render and poor
>rendering most of the time. (Really its the fact that most web site suck
>so hard and couldn't follow a spec to save themselves).
>

web is dead.

http://www.absurd.org/a-periodic/web_is_dead.html

>Either way if someone can suggest mouseless cut'n'paste and mousless use
>of netscape I'm all for it.

w3m? links? lynx?