On Sat, Aug 11, 2007, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>On 2007-08-10 12:09:42 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> I noticed today that pasting in an xterm using the middle mouse
>> button didn't get the text highlighted with the left mouse button,
>> but retrieved a URL that I had previously selected in Firefox with
>> Cmd-C to paste into an e-mail message (mutt in an xterm).
>
>Here it depends on what is selected last.
No. I had selected the URL from Firefox to paste into an xterm. I later
selected text in another xterm to paste into a third xterm. What was
pasted was the previously selected text from Firefox.
>> On a slightly related topic, can anyone explain what xterm options
>> control the left-button double click selections?
>
>Character classes. For instance, under Debian,
>/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm contains:
>
>! Here is a pattern that is useful for double-clicking on a URL:
>!*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37-38:48,43-47:48,58:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
>
>I personnally use the following:
>
>*VT100.charClass: 43:48,45-58:48,126:48
Veddy Inneresting! I found the ones in the SuSE app-defaults/XTerm, but
none in Apple's or CentOS's.
The one in SuSE's is below, and I added this to my ~/XTerm file
on a CentOS system and on OS X and it works a treat.
XTerm*charClass: 33:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,126:48,95:48
>New xterm versions have new options: on2Clicks, on3Clicks, etc.
>But this is not yet in the xterm provided in Mac OS X.
>
>> Double clicking in the xterm in Apple's X11 on a file path name will
>> highlight only the piece between slashes, but the same action in an
>> xterm on any reasonably recent SuSE Linux xterm highlights the
>> entire path. I see the same behaviour in xterms running on CentOS
>> 4.5 and CentOS 5. I really prefer it highlighting the entire path.
>> Is this something that can be defined in a $HOME/.Xresources or
>> $HOME/XTerm file or is it a compile time option?
>
>I prefer the app-defaults way:
I've been using $HOME/XTerm for years starting when I was running Motif
under SCO OpenDesktop 2.0 (now that dates me :-). Most of the tweaks I use
are recommendations I've received over the years, and I don't claim to
understand many of the XResources.
Bill
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