On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:43:30AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> hmm - no: you're confusing the mouse pointer and the text cursor.
> Let's settle on using the terminology in the xterm manpage.
Just a minor point here...
In the submitter's defense, the xterm manpage does sometimes use
"pointer", and sometimes uses "mouse".
I suggest changing "mouse" to "pointer" everywhere.
% MANWIDTH=75 man -Tascii xterm | egrep -1 'mouse'
Xterm allows character-based applications to receive mouse events (cur-
rently button-press and release events, and button-motion events) as
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ors: the vt100 foreground and background colors, the text cur-
sor color, the mouse cursor foreground and background colors,
the Tektronix emulator foreground and background colors, and
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highlightSelection (class HighlightSelection)
If ``false'', selecting with the mouse highlights all positions
on the screen between the beginning of the selection and the
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CHARACTER CLASSES
Clicking the middle mouse button twice in rapid succession will cause
all characters of the same class (e.g., letters, white space, punctua-
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the third parameter mouse is given, the action is ignored when
mouse reporting is enabled.
The second case is probably the most potentially confusing in this context.
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