From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: select large text with mouse Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:08:13 -0400 Message-ID: <873ank3fou.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> References: <05f825db-d5be-4573-b7c2-4a968928df2c@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <32f22e4c-2240-45f2-bace-681ca518ecdd@p25g2000hsf.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 1213149281 11902 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2008 01:54:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: imputerate Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 03:55:24 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 1K6FYY-000549-Ub for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:55:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42000 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6FXl-0001Ts-NR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:54:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6FVa-00009X-8h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:52:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6FVV-000085-VD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:52:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48302 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6FVV-00007x-Jf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpsrv1.isis.unc.edu ([152.2.1.140]:59128 helo=smtp.unc.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6FVV-000205-DE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:52:13 -0400 Original-Received: from edna (cpe-071-065-251-190.nc.res.rr.com [71.65.251.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.unc.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m5B1poAs021618; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:51:54 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:54705 Archived-At: imputerate writes: > On Jun 8, 1:28=A0pm, adams...@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) wrote: > 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 have reason to believe otherwise ;) It's probably Gnome Terminal. Gnome Terminal and Konsole are not Xterm, they are replacements for it. > i press mouse-1 to mark, but when i press mouse-2 to select,=20 Mouse-2 (middle button) pastes in X. In xterm mouse-3 will close the selection. In Gnome terminal, mouse-3 gives me a menu (did mean to say mouse-3?). > i get a menu of things to do in the window; i'm looking into > reconfiguring my mouse; imputerate That shouldn't be necessary; try xterm, it's highly configurable. Joel --=20 Joel J. Adamson (303) 880-3109 Public key: http://pgp.mit.edu Homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj Please read http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj/roe.html