Re: can't cut and paste with gpm
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>I have been building a system from hamm.
>
>When I first installed gpm the cut and paste didn't work. I could select
>text ok, but trying to place it with the right button only caused strange
>selection behavior.
>
>I remembered a strange line in the config from when I installed gpm, so I
>reinstalled it to get another chance to configure it, and wasn't offerend
>the opportunity to do so.
>
>So, I ran gpmconfig manually and recieved the same "strange" line:
>
>Do you want to add any additional arguments
>[-l "a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377"]?
>
>What is this all about, and what would be a "reasonable" response to this,
>asside from <CR>?
man gpm:
-l charset
Choose the inword() look up table. The charset
argument is a list of characters. - is used to
specify a range and \ is used to escape the next
character or to provide octal codes. Only visible
character can appear in charset because control
characters can't appear in text-mode video memory,
whence selection is cut.
So this defines the character set as alphanumerics and the punctuation marks
_ . : ~ and /, together with the ranges 192-214, 216-246 and 248-255 from
the top half of the 8-bit character set.
I can't find any reference in the documentation to inword(), but I guess
that the idea is to identify whether the pointer is in a word or not.
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