Bug#347384: xterm: URLs are not the only thing you want to select...
Package: xterm
Version: 208-3.1
Followup-For: Bug #347384
IMHO the changed charClass resource is a bad idea. It is trivial to
doubleclick on the "http" and drag over the URL. The new setting makes
it basically impossible to select e.g. the directory part of a fully
qualified filename. Being able to select URLs with a doubleclick
requires an awful lot of "separator-like" characters in them: '/', ':',
'=', '&' etc. pp.
Just for example:
Having '&' no longer separating makes selecting of table cells in a
LaTeX-Document very troublesome.
Having '/' no longer separating makes selecting parts of a filename very
inconvenient. "," is inconvenient for CSV-formatted files (Comma
separated values), and so on and so on.
*Please* please please revert this change and restore the original
behaviour by unsetting the charClass resource.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.2
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw8 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs-data 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client data
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii xutils 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System utility programs
-- debconf information:
* xterm/clobber_xresource_file: true
xterm/xterm_needs_devpts:
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