On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:43:38PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Just tried konsole and gnome terminal. Neither of them currently seem > to work this way, at least the versions in unstable don't. Even if > konsole supported this I could not use it, it took 10 seconds to start. I guess you have a fast machine. I just timed konsole's startup on my 2.66GHz box, and it took 22 seconds to get the window on the screen. > It seems like the mouse thing would be easy, if a click starts inside a > tab, that tab is part of the selection region. Same policy as clicking > on a space, you just treat tab as a big space. Then again I have never > hacked a terminal program so I can't really say. It's more complicated than that. xterm stores tabs expanded, and uses that in repainting (iirc, essentially the proposed patch set a bit at the beginning of the tab, so "all" that was left was to make the selection mechanism work). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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