Re: copy/paste in xterm
Re: copy/paste in xterm
- Subject: Re: copy/paste in xterm
- From: Vivien Mary Kendon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:35:46 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, mark lacas wrote:
> Very nice solution, thank you very much.
> Works like a charm.
> ml
>
> On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 02:21 PM, mathias meyer wrote:
> > there's a workaroung for that:
Yes, thank you indeed for showing this. Very neat.
When I first mentioned the inconsistent cut/paste behaviour, I received
rather discouraging responses (look for Subject: Cut and paste confusion.
in the archives, if they are working.) I held off replying basically
because I thought there must be ways round it but didn't know how to do
what you just showed. It is much easier to make a point with a good
example :-)
It is really important to have consistent cut/paste behaviour across aqua
and X11 if at all possible. Whether it is apple-C/V or middle-click,
either or both is not so important as consistency. Especially if you are
making quartz-wm make X windows look as much like aqua windows as
possible.
Though middle-click is sort of the X default, it isn't so hard to change
it (as in this example). I only know this by experience, whenever I am a
guest user of some other system running X I usually get by default a setup
in which middle-click doesn't work, but <somekey>-C/V does. (I then go in
and try to change the defaults to what I like, usually successfully, these
things _ought_ to be configurable to suit, like mouse speed and all
the rest.)
I was told:
On Jan 8,2003 13:20:04 -0800, John Harper <email@hidden> wrote :
>Sorry, this is outside the scope of the X server or window manager. For
>now at least, they can only work within the constraints of the existing
>selection mechanisms provided by Mac OS X and X11,
Could I put in a plea for those who do have it in their scope to have some
careful thinks about this? X is so large and diverse I doubt you could
get perfickly consistent across every known app, but surely you can do
better than what you have now, even mostly within those constraints?
thanks,
-- Viv
> > 1) open
> > /Applications/X11.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/main.nib in
> > interface builder.
> > 2) select the main menu instance and from there the edit menu. in the
> > inspector remove the key equivalent 'v' for 'paste' so that there is
> > no more key assigned to 'paste'
> > 3) save the .nib
> > 4) put something like the following in you .Xdefaults:
> >
> > *VT100.translations: #override\
> > Meta <KeyPress> V: insert-selection(PRIMARY,
> > CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
> >
> > now copy/paste works as expected in xterm.
> >
> > hope that helps. actually, there's a lot more options to make xterm
> > behave more like terminal.app (like scrolling page up/down with the
> > arrowkeys, moving the scrollbar handle with button1 and not button2
> > etc. which i posted these to the list yesterday.
> >
> > mathias
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