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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: Paul Maier <svn-user@web.de>
Cc: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, dickey@his.com
Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type dead keys when mouse is out of the window
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120723090113.GA13479@debian50-32.invisible-island.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004c01cd67a0$9610bcc0$c2323640$@de>
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:26:06AM +0200, Paul Maier wrote:
>
>
> > >>> The problem here is, when running vi in an xterm and the mouse slowly (unnoticed)
> > >>> moves over the scrollbar or out of the xterm, and you want to jump to mark "a,
> > >>> you need to enter `a, that is in keystrokes
> > >>
> > >
> > >> I'll experiment to see if I can reproduce this effect with my environment.
> > >> thanks for the detailed explanation.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > > yes, I'm talking about dead keys = compose sequences.
> > >
> > > Was it possible to you to reproduce it in your environment? Typing dead key ` apostrophe
> > > then press letter "a" while the mouse pointer is over the scrollbar area of an xterm?
> >
> > yes - I can reproduce it. Actually once I was made aware of the issue,
> > I could see in my mind where the problem might lie. But I just verified
> > it since you reminded me (on one of my Linux machines).
> >
> > My idea about the problem is that since xterm has setup translations
> > (which capture the input) on more than one widget (without appearing to
> > address this special case), that it might be that there's a better point
> > in the widget to attach the translations to.
> >
> > This was discussed a little late in the #277 cycle to want to hold that
> > up, so I had in mind to spend some time investigating a solution for it
> > during #278.
> >
>
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I would like to report, that above problem still exists.
> I tested against xterm-281.
yes (I spent some time investigating this, but did not yet find a solution)
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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-23 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-07 9:06 Can't paste text or type blind " Paul Maier
2011-09-07 12:25 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-09-08 20:53 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-09-09 11:42 ` Jon TURNEY
2011-10-03 10:37 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-04 0:35 ` Thomas Dickey
2011-10-05 0:54 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-05 1:00 ` Thomas Dickey
2011-10-30 23:04 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-10-31 3:33 ` Thomas Dickey
2012-07-22 0:28 ` AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type dead " Paul Maier
2012-07-23 9:01 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2011-10-05 13:03 ` AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type blind " Jon TURNEY
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