X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: Should mintty's copy-on-select option be on by default? Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:34:45 -0400 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2010-07-29 08:02, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 29 July 2010 08:24, JOHNER Jean 066030 wrote: >> Thank you for all the answers to my original request below. This was very instructive. >> In conclusion: >> - to get middle-mouse paste of the selection with Mintty, Options/Mouse/copy on select had to be checked, which is not the default. > > Middle button paste really does work fine by default. It pastes > whatever is in the clipboard. However, when you select something, it > is not automatically placed in the clipboard unless you enable 'Copy > on select'. > > This is a difference in approach between Windows and X11: in X, the > selection is automatically made available for pasting, whereas in > Windows you need to explicitly copy it to the clipboard using the Copy > menu command or one of its keyboard shortcuts. The Windows approach > has the advantage that you can select something without clobbering the > clipboard content. It has the disadvantage that an additional action > is required when you just want to copy&paste. > > Mintty currently defaults to the Windows approach. I've seen enough > questions about this though that I'm thinking about changing this. > > Selecting without copying isn't actually much use in mintty, because > the only other thing you can do with a selection is to try to 'Open' > it. And I guess most users do come from a Unixy background. > > Opinions? > > Andy > I've been a Windows user for most of my life, but I still prefer copy-on-select for a terminal. I vote for it being the default. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple