[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: can't cut and paste with gpm



Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:

> Any reason why 128-191, 215, and 247 are excluded? (My ASCII table ends
> with DEL (127)

That's gpm's default.

15:22:09@hades| ~/temp/gpm-1.13 $grep 300 *
gpmCfg.h:#define DEF_LUT   "-a-zA-Z0-9_./\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377"
15:22:12@hades| ~/temp/gpm-1.13 $

"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377" which is what you all
have, is the default with `:' and `~' added.  I did this because Peter
Tobias asked me to, and it seemed reasonable.  Ray wants better
handling of the -l option in gpmconfig [#9753], and I agree with him,
and it's next on my todo list for gpm.

> More to the point, what would be the danger of making it:
> 
> [-l "\000-\377"] 
> 
> to cover the full 8 bit character set?

If you really want every character to be thought of as part of a word,
nothing.

With the current LUT, if gpm were presented with the line:

| Foo, Bar. Baz [Quinn]

would select "Foo", if you double clicked on `o', "Quinn", if you
double clicked on "Q", etc.[1] If you use -l "\000-\377", a double
click (select word) would become a triple click (select line)[1].

Dale, if you're still having problems, please take a look at #16063,
and see if it's similar to that, and/or file a bug.

[1] IIRC, untested because I haven't got non-remote access to a Linux
box atm.

-- 
James


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org


Reply to: