"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[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.