Re: How to set background-color without damaging cut&paste ?

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, 4 Sept 2024 at 06:37, Peter <pmc@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> wrote:

> However, after setting the background-color, the result is this:
>
> 00000000  46 69 72 73 74 20 4c 69  6e 65 20 20 20 20 20 20  |First Line      |
> 00000010  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
> 00000020  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
> 00000030  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
> 00000040  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |

You’re getting the default mouse selection handling by your terminal
emulator, which is not guaranteed to be correct for full-screen
applications.

Example: if you enable ‘toggle-truncate-lines’ and have several
adjacent lines that are too wide for the terminal window, the terminal
emulator will highlight and copy only the displayed parts of the
lines.

Consider enabling xterm-mouse-mode.