From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: imputerate Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: select large text with mouse Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:09:28 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <32f22e4c-2240-45f2-bace-681ca518ecdd@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <05f825db-d5be-4573-b7c2-4a968928df2c@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213076447 992 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2008 05:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 10 07:41:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K5wbm-0007QA-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:41:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33137 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5waz-0003cq-La for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.31.205.57 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213074569 19795 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2008 05:09:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:09:29 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.31.205.57; posting-account=nLw1LAgAAAC-__9kTF1Cg2C1w3aPdEcE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159306 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54664 Archived-At: On Jun 8, 1:28=A0pm, adams...@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) wrote: > imputerate writes: > > ubuntu [hardy] > > =A0emacs: 22.1-0ubuntu10 > > =A0 =A0gnus: 5.11+v0.5.dfsg > > slackware [12.0] > > =A0emacs: 22.2-i486-1 > > > i can't get my logitech wheelmouse to select any more text from an > > emacs > > buffer [in xterm/konsole] than appears on the screen at one time; > > You're using the selection method of the terminal emulator program, not > Emacs. =A0Either use the keyboard to select --- which will select in > Emacs, or use the style from the terminal program. =A0For example, in > xterm (the one and only), use Mouse-1 to mark and Mouse-3 to select, > Mouse-2 to paste. =A0In other words, click where you want your selection > to start, scroll to where you want it to end, and click Mouse-3. > > Of course, this won't work in Emacs in a terminal emulator. =A0Is there a > reason you're not using the X interface? =A0Because you're ssh'ing in to a= > remote server? > > Check out Multi-TTY, available in CVS Emacs. > > Joel > -- > Joel J. Adamson > (303) 880-3109 > Public key:http://pgp.mit.edu > Homepage:http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj > Please readhttp://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj/roe.html thanks, joel; first off, the tty problem is trivial, so i'll get to it later; i assume ubuntu hardy loads xterm by default; i press mouse-1 to mark, but when i press mouse-2 to select, i get a menu of things to do in the window; i'm looking into reconfiguring my mouse; imputerate