mouse-clicks in elvis and tin (was Re: VI insert problems)
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote:
> Modern implemetations of vi have this feature. I use vim and it seems
> to work fine. I've heard that elvis enables movement of the cursor
> via the mouse. That's one of the great advantages of emacs in X.
I think that it must be a compile time option, and I'm glad that whoever
maintains elvis for debian choose not to enable it.
I still have two slackware systems set up at work...can't afford the
downtime to switch to debian on those machines at the moment (but one
of them is getting debian installed early next week :-). elvis on those
machines will reposition the cursor if the mouse is clicked in the
window. bloody irritating. I use hjkl to move the cursor. I use the
mouse to select text for cutting and pasting. Worst thing about it is
that it makes it impossible to cut & paste text with the mouse.
tin v1.30b exhibits a similar problem. I often like to select text out
of a news message (e.g. a URL for pasting into Netscape, or an email
address for pasting into a finger command in another window etc etc
etc). tin interprets a mouse click as the 'next {page|message}' key.
This is worse than irritating. This behaviour is infuriating.
it seems to me that both programs are giving up a *lot* of functionality
for a marginal, highly dubious "convenience".
Speaking of tin, does anyone know of a news reader which works like nn
but has tin's neat newsgroup selection mode? I really like the way that
nn works, and I like the fact that it makes it really easy to NOT read
news, but I like moving between my newsgroups easily.
> Anyone know if the mouse works like this in elvis on a console using
> gpm?
no it doesn't, fortunately :)
Craig
Reply to: