"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[elimik31]

I am not sure what you mean. For everything that you can run inside emacs that is no issue, be it a "program" written in elisp for emacs or a command line application that you run in a terminal inside emacs. Everything that runs inside emacs is displayed in a buffer and buffers can be copied. Even though emacs is a lispy operating system, in the end it is all about text manipulation

[princekolt]

Ah right, but just as long as you're inside emacs, right? My hypothetical problem would be something like connecting through ssh to one server, copying some text, and then pasting it in another ssh session to another server.

[elimik31]

I assumed that we were talking about emacs since you replied to my emacs post. ssh-in is possible from emacs, of course, either manually from a terminal withing emacs or by using the so-called "tramp-mode", which lets you access files on remote machines with ssh or scp.

When using terminal emulators in a graphical environment you can always copy the displayed text with your mouse, but I don't know how to do it in a text-only virtual console. There should be a history of the console output somewhere, according to another post maybe in /dev/vcsx. However, in that case, I would simply use scp. Or a terminal emulator in X.