I want to strongly second the opinion of Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I find that in fact the new behavior makes it harder to select URLs! When I read mail in mutt, the URL often wraps to a new line and in preceded by a '+' character. Double-clicking the URL selects the '+', so I must carefully select the start and end of the URL by character. With the old settings, I could double-click anywhere in HTTP and drag to the end by word (which is also useful to grab only part of the URL, by the way). The issue repeats itself in many other situations. For example, I used to be able to get a bug number out of a Debian changelog by double-clicking; now, I get "#345477," instead. When I want a word from a document, I end up getting the surrounding punctuation as well. And so on.
Moreover, xterm has had its default selection behavior forever, and with such a venerable program, the Debian package should be conservative in changing defaults. I was quite shocked by the new behavior. I even took care to keep my old xterm windows open so that I could enjoy the historical behavior until I had time to figure out what was going on! Last, if you are going to keep the change, you should not only mention it in README.Debian, but update the man page, which gives the default. In my view, the burden of maintaining the updated man page is reason enough not to make this change. ;-) Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]