sending difficult words from news articles to txt files

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 On 5 October 2010 01:46, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> On 5 October 2010 09:00, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ok here is some thing which I always wanted to know.
> > I was reading an article here
> > http://www.economist.com/node/17145035
> > I found some difficult words which I usually have a habit of noting
> > down in a file with vi or gedit.
> > It is very painful to do so.Is there some shortcut available so that I
> > just select the word from article and
> > via right click or some key combination I send it (append it ) to the
> > file where I store all my difficult words.
> > I also want to save the link if possible.
> >
>
> Personally I'd just have the 'difficult words' document open on the
> screen and the browser. Then just double click the word you want to
> keep which will copy it to the clipboard, then move the mouse over the
> note/document and middle click the mouse to paste. Go back to the
> browser, double click the url and then back to the document and middle
> click again to paste.
>
> I'd think you'd get quite quick at that after a while.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>
+1
I use the same method., thanks to X11
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