From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamishmb@live.co.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cut and paste doesn't work
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:16:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB7PR02MB3996C4927E7106DF2101621EE7A10@DB7PR02MB3996.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1642602024.20210121130923@yandex.ru>
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On 21/01/2021 10:09, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty!
>
>> NB: I don't think I have this problem, but I do seem to have an
>> unrelated problem where as soon as I select any text in mintty it
>> immediately replaced my clipboard contents which that selection.
> This is standard behavior for a terminal for as long as I recall.
No terminal I have ever used other than MinTTY behaves this way with
text selection, with the exception of the Windows command prompt. In
fairness, it probably makes sense for it to behave in a way that is more
normal for Windows users (I primarily run Linux).
>> This is very annoying, because when copying text to mintty I frequently click
>> and drag a small amount of text by accident.
>> Is this configurable somehow?
> Of course it is configurable.
> mintty - Options - Selection.
Ah excellent, thank you :) AFAIR I don't seem to have a menubar when I
run MinTTY, how can I get to the options?
Hamish
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-20 20:31 Wojciech Puchar
2021-01-21 1:08 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-01-21 7:34 ` KAVALAGIOS Panagiotis (EEAS-EXT)
2021-01-21 9:11 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2021-01-21 10:09 ` Andrey Repin
2021-01-21 12:16 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty [this message]
2021-01-21 12:40 ` Fergus Daly
2021-01-21 16:15 ` Eliot Moss
2021-03-04 10:14 ` Wojciech Puchar
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