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Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default? |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:08:51 -0700 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> The argument is like this: a lot of users ONLY use the mouse in an xterm
> to select text and then use mouse-2 to paste it in another
> xterm/another application. Not being able to do this makes the mouse
> not very useful, and the user would blame emacs for this.
>
> Why would they not be able to do this?
> It isn't obvious.
Because the a selection done with the mouse when xterm-mouse-mode is
active is not available to X. It is only available to Emacs, so it is
possible to use the mouse to copy between 2 emacs windows running in
the same terminal frame, but X know nothing about the selection.
- should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/12
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/12
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Miles Bader, 2005/04/12
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/13
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/13
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/14
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?,
Dan Nicolaescu <=
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, David Kastrup, 2005/04/14
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/15
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Nick Roberts, 2005/04/15
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2005/04/15
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Miles Bader, 2005/04/15
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/16
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/16
- Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Richard Stallman, 2005/04/17
Re: should xterm-mouse-mode be on by default?, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/04/13