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From: Ryan Johnson <ryan.johnson@cs.utoronto.ca>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XWin.exe causes Windows apps. to freeze
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECAE2AF.7020601@cs.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK-n8j4KMpHcS5-3Jg9ePq6V-r_J=h8Wh_ebgOY5OXdNr6OYDA@mail.gmail.com>

On 21/11/2011 4:25 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>
>> Eh? Mouse copy/paste in mintty is identical to xterm AFAIK... select = copy,
>> middle button = paste. If you're in a mouse-using terminal app you have to
>> hold down [shift] but that's the same in xterm, I think.
> Not on mine it isn't:
>
> * double-click on word  hightlights, but does not copy
> * middle button paste does work
>
> In my xterms, I just have to double-click LMB to copy, then MMB pastes.
That's very strange... I can't tell you how many ad-hoc excel graphs 
I've populated with numbers grabbed by double-click from experiment 
output. Triple-clicking to get the whole line also comes in handy at 
times. I just tested again in case it changed since yesterday, and it 
still works for me.

Ryan


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21 17:14 Jim Reisert AD1C
2011-11-21 17:40 ` Ryan Johnson
2011-11-21 17:58   ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2011-11-21 20:07     ` Andy Koppe
2011-11-21 20:21     ` Ryan Johnson
2011-11-21 21:26       ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2011-11-21 23:46         ` Ryan Johnson [this message]
2011-11-22  5:27           ` Andy Koppe
2011-11-22  5:47             ` Ryan Johnson
2011-11-22 21:28             ` Jim Reisert AD1C

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