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From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: pasting into read statement?
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:39:32 +0200 (SAST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510311637510.16715@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051031142803.GB27622@romuald.net.eu.org>

You are correct.
The pasted data is not echoed to the screen, but actually goes into the 
variable.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Regards, Willem


On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Gregory Nowak wrote:

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> Are you sure that it actually didn't paste anything? I've seen some
> instances in telnet sessions where hitting speakup with slash just
> said "paste", and it looked like the paste never happened when you
> reviewed the screen, but when I then hit enter, I found that the
> pasted command or whatever actually did get acted upon.
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> Greg
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> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 01:25:41PM +0200, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Why can i not paste into a read statment in bash?
>> If i do:
>> read varname
>> from a bash prompt, the terminal expects input.
>> when i try to paste a previously marked area, it acts asif nothing were
>> marked.Is there a way that i can change the read statement so that paste
>> will  work?
>> TIA
>> Willem
>>
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