Scroll-Wheel Copy and Paste

There is no standard ability to copy / cut / paste in the Terminal activity. There's a partial work-around if you have a USB mouse with a scroll-wheel which is also a third button (this setup is the norm).

If you have something in the paste buffer--for instance if you highlighted a command from a web page by highlighting it and copying with Ctrl-C--you can paste it to the command line.

Go to the Terminal, and click the scroll-wheel. It should paste what you have in the paste buffer. Remember that it will always paste it where the current cursor is, the mouse can't move the cursor in Terminal.

To copy something from Terminal, highlight the text. This effectively puts the highlighted text in a paste buffer. You can then paste it back into Terminal, or into another activity (such as Write or a web page text box) by clicking the scroll-wheel.

This is a poor substitute for proper copy-paste ability, but is very useful when trying to do complicated instructions at the command line.