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Bug#241717: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=241717



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
--
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-
--
               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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