It would appear that on Mar 22, Carsten Haitzler did say:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:56:21 -0400 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtw...@ttlc.net>
> said:
> > > thats how xterm works.. but not ctrl+c/v - middle mouse click to paste.
> > > just
> > > hilight to copy. old school x style. :) you can skip the ctrl+c bit :)
> >
> > That part works in a Konsole to, Provided I want to paste via middle click.
> > Which presents two difficulties for me. Both related to having poor mouse
> > coordination.
> > (1)When I paste to any gui application via the middle click.
> > invariably the text cursor is first moved to the mouse pointer position.
>
> THAT behavior in apps/toolkits, i find INCREDIBLY annoying. :(
>
> > Since I have difficulty correctly positioning anything with the mouse I
> > find it much easier to position the text cursor with the keyboard and then
> > use a keyboard shortcut to paste to it. Hence the right click menu
> > followed by the "c" to copy the marked text to the correct buffer for
> > pasting with ^V...
>
> sure, but in xterm it'll go where the text cursor is.. YAY! :)
>
Likewise when pasting *_to_* Konsole, whether via a successful middle click
or a right click menu->"p"
> > (2)I sometimes need to make several attempts, just to mark the
> > correct text string with the mouse. Once I finally get the right text
> > segment marked, I'm not willing to trust my poor mouse coordination to
> > attempt emulating the middle click by cording the left and right buttons,
> > because I'm just as likely to accidentally mark something new as to actually
> > paste the contents that used to be in the gpm clipboard. {sigh}
>
> have u tried double/triple click and customising the "cut chars" (the chars
> where the term decides a word begins/ends). i use:
>
> XTerm*.charClass:
> 37-38:48,43:48,45-57:48,60:48,62:48,64-90:48,95:48,97-122:48,124:48,126:48
>
> very much more usable for me :)
Yes I use both double and triple clicking as often as I can avoid having to
hold a mouse button down and drag the pointer to mark something.
I'm guessing this "XTerm*.charClass:" definition goes in ~/.Xresources?
Or alternatively could it somehow be added to a cli string like: This 80+
column easy eye string from one of my keyboard shortcuts???
xterm -bg gray75 -fg DarkBlue -fn 12x24 -geometry 82x25
> > > one of these days we have to modernize eterm (or start afresh) and make
> > > an e
> > > terminal that fits in with modern efl (uses evas, edje, ecore etc.)... one
> > > of these days.
> >
> > Speaking of Eterm, how about a trip down memory lane? I have an old memory
> > backed up by an old screenshot of a surreal landscape image with a command
> > prompt printed on the upper lefthand corner and a boarder that referred to
> > the
> > terminal window as being something called "Eterm-0.8.10". At the time I was
> > a
> > kde user. And I hadn't even heard of Enlightenment yet. But somehow I found
> > this Eterm terminal that displayed a different surreal landscape as a
> > background image every time I initialized it. Though if memory serves, I
> > found
>
> yup. random background feature. picks 1 from a list. :)
>
> > it hard to actually use because the background image often interfered with
> > the
> > legibility of the text. S0 what I did was to open a full screen session of
> > it
>
> yeah. poor choice in backgrounds to make sure they contrast from the text
> colors. that's all. you could change the wallpaper set yourself if u wanted
> to.
>
Yeah, but at the time I didn't know where to find such kool graphic
images... So of course whenever I noticed one I liked, a snapshot of it was
added to the folder I keep my personal background images in...
Of course, that means that every now and then, when I'm too tired to
realize it's just a background image I get a little frustrated trying to
type a command into what looks like my bash prompt in the upper left hand
corner... ;-)
What would have had me actually "*_using_*" that version of Eterm a lot would
have been a good opaque contrasting "character" background for all printable
text characters So that you only saw those portions of the background that
wasn't currently printed on...
Thanks again.
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