On 2017-11-15 23:44, qrasmfu...@snkmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 23:38:13 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Thanks for flattering me :) Sounds good after all the people asking for >> ever more features, silly ones as well as good ones. >> Actually, after the WSL and Virtual Tabs endeavours, release frequency >> should become lower now. > Speaking of silly feature requests ... > The main reason I'm not a fan of mintty (and as a result haven't switched to > cygwin64 on my primary Windows machine - because it doesn't include the > non-Xwindows version of rxvt) is that it behaves different than xterm/rxvt for > copying/pasting text. I spend most of my time in front of linux systems using > xterm, rxvt and rxvt-unicode, so I have that way of copying/pasting text built > into the "microcode" in my hand. I've found it quite difficult to adjust to > mintty. > Would it be possible to add an option to mintty to support xterm/rxvt style > copying/pasting (what rxvt calls text selection and inserting) as described in > the rxvt man page: > TEXT SELECTION AND INSERTION > The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is similar to > xterm(1). > Selection: > Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to the end of the region and > release; Right click to extend the marked region; Left double-click to select > a word; Left triple-click to select the entire line. > Insertion: > Pressing and releasing the Middle mouse button (or Shift-Insert) in an rxvt > window causes the current text selection to be inserted as if it had been > typed on the keyboard.
All except Right click to extend the region works in mintty, and config file option RightClickAction=extend changes that to what you want, which also makes shift-right-click menu, and shift-left-click paste - man mintty is your friend - search for /right.*click, /extend.*region, or /right.*mouse. Check out https://github.com/mintty/mintty for even more useful info. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple