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screen: Paste

 
 12.2 Paste
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  -- Command: paste [registers [destination]]
      ('C-a ]', 'C-a C-]')
      Write the (concatenated) contents of the specified registers to the
      stdin stream of the current window.  The register '.' is treated as
      the paste buffer.  If no parameter is specified the user is
      prompted to enter a single register.  The paste buffer can be
      filled with the 'copy', 'history' and 'readbuf' commands.  Other
      registers can be filled with the 'register', 'readreg' and 'paste'
      commands.  If 'paste' is called with a second argument, the
      contents of the specified registers is pasted into the named
      destination register rather than the window.  If '.' is used as the
      second argument, the display's paste buffer is the destination.
      Note, that 'paste' uses a wide variety of resources: Usually both,
      a current window and a current display are required.  But whenever
      a second argument is specified no current window is needed.  When
      the source specification only contains registers (not the paste
      buffer) then there need not be a current display (terminal
      attached), as the registers are a global resource.  The paste
      buffer exists once for every user.
 
  -- Command: stuff [string]
      (none)
      Stuff the string STRING in the input buffer of the current window.
      This is like the 'paste' command, but with much less overhead.
      Without a paramter, 'screen' will prompt for a string to stuff.
      You cannot paste large buffers with the 'stuff' command.  It is
      most useful for key bindings.  Bindkey.
 
  -- Command: pastefont [state]
      Tell screen to include font information in the paste buffer.  The
      default is not to do so.  This command is especially useful for
      multi character fonts like kanji.
 
  -- Command: slowpaste msec
  -- Command: defslowpaste msec
      (none)
      Define the speed text is inserted in the current window by the
      'paste' command.  If the slowpaste value is nonzero text is written
      character by character.  'screen' will pause for MSEC milliseconds
      after each write to allow the application to process the input.
      only use 'slowpaste' if your underlying system exposes flow control
      problems while pasting large amounts of text.  'defslowpaste'
      specifies the default for new windows.
 
  -- Command: readreg [-e encoding] [register [filename]]
      (none)
      Does one of two things, dependent on number of arguments: with zero
      or one arguments it it duplicates the paste buffer contents into
      the register specified or entered at the prompt.  With two
      arguments it reads the contents of the named file into the
      register, just as 'readbuf' reads the screen-exchange file into the
      paste buffer.  You can tell screen the encoding of the file via the
      '-e' option.  The following example will paste the system's
      password file into the screen window (using register p, where a
      copy remains):
 
           C-a : readreg p /etc/passwd
           C-a : paste p
 

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