begin Shawn P. Neugebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > generally, selection behavior is application-specific.
hi shawn, ahh. this makes sense. > for example, given > "Z = 2.96688494e+05" in a Konsole, a double-click selects "2.96688494e"; > in a KDE compose window, a double-click selects "2.96688494e+05". > it's unlikely you would be able to significantly modify this behavior in your > applications-of-interest without substantial coding work. > > shawn. that's a shame. so much effort has gone into something like widget attributes when the fact is, i don't really care what "skin" by browser has or whether the title bar is burnt-siena or brushed-glowing-steel. this would've been something of substantial value to me. i'm in the position of cut and pasting hundreds of numbers into a spread sheet and double clicking would be easier than click, move mouse, release. but i see what you mean -- it's the application that should determine what a mouse click does, not the X server. btw, what exactly is a KDE compose window? is that like an xterm? an html editor? pete > On Tuesday 09 April 2002 12:28 pm, you wrote: > > is there a way to modify the selection behavior of the mouse under X? > > > > for instance, in this line: > > > > Z = 2.96688494e+05 > > > > by double clicking, i can select "96688494e". by triple clicking i get > > the entire line of the xterm. it's more useful for me for the selection > > to be based on spaces rather than punctuation. > > > > is there a way to modify X's mouse behavior so that a double click will > > select the whole number "2.96688494e+05"? > > > > also, IP numbers have the same problem: > > > > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > > > it would be nice to be able to select a whole IP number rather than just > > a quad (or a period depending on where you click). > > > > pete > > _______________________________________________ > > vox-tech mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech