X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:message-id:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=d9o nD+2cQsF6L+GbVraxUfvC5SWm+rKgv62XawM5aGvbLgPEiVQHlrZYIEAyDI3QQTJ BGauAT0VHOzuHy/vgwrdCkXT6dmyR+3urcdBtdkYZIJD2mDxmnUuQKCZvs/forzT AxaXQbrRoIr4p4eBuLBRYtsRxwZ4HwF0IhFOvBU8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:message-id:date:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=EcEA2I5Ee D2CzrSRo3qAmXnxjQE=; b=AXWzeqZI5qGnBEKQKS9SgTehv7vOr0DsBShMU7Rb2 xdt3v/hHDEcuYdAp9XL8Xfh5M8o8T9lGj3cKwGpH8ruqIgs6Pm/Wjij5vBCjkdPg e4IbgUmlsNTXZoB6LSZEc8vJ6Gpin4FaTSP4XECKQBAcQIUgrzcqub15+1OYpfwo 70= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KB_WAM_FROM_NAME_SINGLEWORD,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=click, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: sneak2.sneakemail.com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: qrasmfu8f4 AT snkmail DOT com Subject: Add support for xterm/rxvt style text selection and inserting to mintty? (was Re: Cygwin alongside WSL) Message-ID: <9050-1510814671-782179@sneakemail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:44:32 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 23:38:13 +0100 Thomas Wolff wrote: > Thanks for flattering me :) Sounds good after all the people asking for > ever more features, silly ones as well as good ones. > Actually, after the WSL and Virtual Tabs endeavours, release frequency > should become lower now. Speaking of silly feature requests ... The main reason I'm not a fan of mintty (and as a result haven't switched to cygwin64 on my primary Windows machine -  because it doesn't include the non-Xwindows version of rxvt) is that it behaves different than xterm/rxvt for copying/pasting text.  I spend most of my time in front of linux systems using xterm, rxvt and rxvt-unicode, so I have that way of copying/pasting text built into the "microcode" in my hand.  I've found it quite difficult to adjust to mintty. Would it be possible to add an option to mintty to support xterm/rxvt style copying/pasting (what rxvt calls text selection and inserting) as described in the rxvt man page: TEXT SELECTION AND INSERTION        The behaviour of text selection and insertion mechanism is similar to xterm(1).        Selection:               Left click at the beginning of the region, drag to the end of the region               and release; Right click to extend the marked region; Left  double-click               to select a word; Left triple-click to select the entire line.        Insertion:               Pressing  and  releasing the Middle mouse button (or Shift-Insert) in an               rxvt window causes the current text selection to be inserted  as  if  it               had been typed on the keyboard.     thanks,     Peter -- 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