On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:27:50PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote:
> Mark van Rossum writes:
>
> When I try to select a large selection of text,
> larger than fits in the window,
> the mouse moves so fast selection becomes tricky.
>
> I wonder if this is a bug or if is due to some setting.
>
> It's always been that way in LyX, at least on sparc-solaris
> platforms. I've given up trying to use the mouse for anything more
> than a line or two, and resort to Ctrl-m to mark the beginning of a
> selection, then various cursor-control keys to mark the end.
>
> It would be nice if selection with the mouse were usable.
How about just shift and cursor-control? Even shift-pageup or
shift-pagedown works.
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