Subject: Re: gpm mouse behavior under NT?
From: [email-masked] (Gennady Feldman)

7 Jan 1999 18:54:51 -0800
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To: Corinna Vinschen <[email-masked]>
Cc: "W. Steven Conner" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

Hello Everybody.

 Actually on Win95 if you want to get Copying/Pasting to work you:
    1) go to Properties
    2) select Misc tab.
    3) Uncheck Fast Pasting!!! <- this is important, Fast Pasting doesn't work
with CygWin
    4) Check QuickEdit.

G.F.

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> W. Steven Conner wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to copy and paste text via the mouse buttons in Windows NT
> > (as is possible under X-Windows and/or by using gpm under linux)?
>
> Yes!
>
> - Open the properties dialog of the console window.
> - The `options` contain a toggle button, named `Quick edit mode'.
>   It must be ON.
> - Save the properties.
>
> Now you are able to use left mouse to mark. Try it. The marking mechanism
> works in another way as with gpm and many other apps (sigh!).
> If sth. is marked, pressing the right mouse button is same as `copy'.
> If nothing is marked, pressing right mouse button is same as `paste'.
>
> Important hint: While sth. is marked, every keypress only beeps! Fortunately,
> the console window headline contains a word as 'Choose'. I'm not sure,
> because I only know the german OS, which shows the word 'Auswählen'. Pressing
> a mouse button without moving the mouse leaves the marking mode.
>
> Hope, this helps,
> Corinna
>
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