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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 40644: /trunk/epan/dissectors/ /trun

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:22:35 -0800
On 1/23/12 9:34 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
> Maynard, Chris wrote:
>>
>> I tried that but it didn't work for me.  Are you able to?
> 
> Yes, but it depends on the application being pasted into.  For example,
> I can copy DXDragon's name out of Firefox and into Thunderbird just fine
> but I can't paste it into a GNOME terminal (which actually I find
> surprising: I thought I could do that before.  Oh, maybe that's at home
> where I have a much newer version of Fedora.)  Pasting into gedit works
> fine, too.  (Obviously this is all on Linux.)

I was able to paste from Firefox to vim via Terminal.app on OS X, but
more luck than skill was involved.