From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:31:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85pswx0wc3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504141908.j3EJ8sAH015866@scanner2.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:08:51 -0700")
Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > The argument is like this: a lot of users ONLY use the mouse in an xterm
> > to select text and then use mouse-2 to paste it in another
> > xterm/another application. Not being able to do this makes the mouse
> > not very useful, and the user would blame emacs for this.
> >
> > Why would they not be able to do this?
> > It isn't obvious.
>
> Because the a selection done with the mouse when xterm-mouse-mode is
> active is not available to X. It is only available to Emacs, so it is
> possible to use the mouse to copy between 2 emacs windows running in
> the same terminal frame, but X know nothing about the selection.
Isn't there a way to reoffer the selection?
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-14 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-13 1:41 should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default? Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-13 2:08 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-13 4:11 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-13 18:31 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-13 18:54 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-14 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 19:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-14 23:31 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-04-15 15:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-15 20:38 ` Nick Roberts
2005-04-15 21:26 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2005-04-15 21:38 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-16 17:49 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 2:21 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-17 19:19 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-13 23:23 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-14 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 22:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-04-15 1:26 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-15 1:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-04-14 7:40 ` Kai Großjohann
2005-04-14 9:31 ` Stephan Stahl
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