On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:40:50AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-12-10 03:45:11 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > I agree. :) > > Well, I considered that losing data (as long as the program has the > control of them) was a bug. No more of a bug than the Linux VCs losing the contents of their scrollback buffers when the machine is powered off. Output streams from character devices are not the same sort of "data" for the purpose of bug severities as the contents of a filesystem. My opinion, anyway. You can feel free to start an argument about this on -devel, or appeal my decision to the Technical Committee. Except they punt on most BTS wars, so you may just have to live with my decision. ;-) > The (only?) big problem with screen is that one cannot scrollback with > the mouse. If screen is linked against ncurses, it may be a "simple mattter of programming" to enable sensitivity to mouse actions for it, similarly to lynx. > > Except for a vastly annoying problem having to do with the failure of > > screen and xterm to cooperate regarding what the primary selection is, > > I highly recommend it. > > Hasn't this primary selection problem just been fixed as a consequence > of the fix for bug 277832? I'm not convinced yet that it has been fixed to my personal satisfaction. (That said, I'm a real nitpicky bastard when it comes to the primary selection, and I may end up just have to eat what Thomas Dickey feeds me. :) ) -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are Debian GNU/Linux | venerable because they are more branden@debian.org | fruitful than the truths of little http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | men. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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