Add support for xterm/rxvt style text selection and inserting to mintty? (was Re: Cygwin alongside WSL)

Add support for xterm/rxvt style text selection and inserting to mintty? (was Re: Cygwin alongside WSL)

[qrasmfu8f4]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 23:38:13 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Thanks for flattering me :) Sounds good after all the people asking for
> ever more features, silly ones as well as good ones.
> Actually, after the WSL and Virtual Tabs endeavours, release frequency
> should become lower now.
Speaking of silly feature requests ...
The main reason I'm not a fan of mintty (and as a result haven't 
switched to cygwin64 on my primary Windows machine -  because it doesn't 
include the non-Xwindows version of rxvt) is that it behaves different 
than xterm/rxvt for copying/pasting text.  I spend most of my time in 
front of linux systems using xterm, rxvt and rxvt-unicode, so I have 
that way of copying/pasting text built into the "microcode" in my hand.  
I've found it quite difficult to adjust to mintty.

Would it be possible to add an option to mintty to support xterm/rxvt 
style copying/pasting (what rxvt calls text selection and inserting) as 
described in the rxvt man page:

    TEXT SELECTION AND INSERTION
            The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is
    similar to xterm(1).

            Selection:
                   Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to
    the end of the region
                   and release; Right click to extend the marked region;
    Left  double-click
                   to select a word; Left triple-click to select the
    entire line.

            Insertion:
                   Pressing  and  releasing the Middle mouse button (or
    Shift-Insert) in an
                   rxvt window causes the current text selection to be
    inserted  as  if  it
                   had been typed on the keyboard.

     thanks,
     Peter


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Re: Add support for xterm/rxvt style text selection and inserting to mintty? (was Re: Cygwin alongside WSL)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2017-11-15 23:44, qrasmfu8f4@snkmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 23:38:13 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Thanks for flattering me :) Sounds good after all the people asking for
>> ever more features, silly ones as well as good ones.
>> Actually, after the WSL and Virtual Tabs endeavours, release frequency
>> should become lower now.
> Speaking of silly feature requests ...
> The main reason I'm not a fan of mintty (and as a result haven't switched to
> cygwin64 on my primary Windows machine -  because it doesn't include the
> non-Xwindows version of rxvt) is that it behaves different than xterm/rxvt for
> copying/pasting text.  I spend most of my time in front of linux systems using
> xterm, rxvt and rxvt-unicode, so I have that way of copying/pasting text built
> into the "microcode" in my hand.  I've found it quite difficult to adjust to
> mintty.
> Would it be possible to add an option to mintty to support xterm/rxvt style
> copying/pasting (what rxvt calls text selection and inserting) as described in
> the rxvt man page:
> TEXT SELECTION AND INSERTION
> The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is similar to
> xterm(1).
> Selection:
> Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to the end of the region and 
> release; Right click to extend the marked region; Left double-click to select
> a word; Left triple-click to select the entire line.
> Insertion:
> Pressing and releasing the Middle mouse button (or Shift-Insert) in an rxvt
> window causes the current text selection to be inserted as if it had been
> typed on the keyboard.

All except Right click to extend the region works in mintty, and config file
option RightClickAction=extend changes that to what you want, which also makes
shift-right-click menu, and shift-left-click paste - man mintty is your friend -
search for /right.*click, /extend.*region, or /right.*mouse.

Check out https://github.com/mintty/mintty for even more useful info.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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