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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> No one responded about the possibility of using the keyboard to do the
> paste ... and man gpm is silent about it as well, does that mean its
> not really possible to copy with mouse and paste with keyboard?

The only way I can think is to use "screen", which has keyboard-based
text selection, copy and paste functionality (including selecting from
the scrollback buffer).