X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:56:07 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1437663402.20100731085607@mtu-net.ru> To: "JOHNER Jean 066030" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Should mintty's copy-on-select option be on by default? In-Reply-To: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4C7@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> References: <1299EF3181B10F479D85C328013285240331C4C7@THEZE.intra.cea.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Greetings, JOHNER Jean 066030! > "Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows". > All the Linux terminals (KDE konsole, Gnome terminal) use copy-on-select > by default. > So ... It's right and useful for streaming terminal (regular command line shell, chat logs), but it is a big headache for fullscreen applications, even more for WYSIWYG ones. If you want to select something in stream, you likely want to copy it, because you, literally, can't do anything else with that selection. For WYSIWYG application, it could be myriad of things, from which replacing selection with a clipboard content is probably the most wanted one. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 31.07.2010, <8:51> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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