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Re: [vile] middle click
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [vile] middle click |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:57:47 -0400 |
mike j dougherty wrote:
> OK, this may sound a bit lame, but it's been bugging me for a while...
not lame at all.
> On Linux and other Unix WM's you can highlight text in an xterm (or
> other window) and paste it to another xterm (or other window) by
> clicking the middle mouse button (or if you only have a 2 button mouse,
> but click both buttons at the same time). I love this feature, and use
> it a lot. But it seems to be configured incorrectly in my vile. It works
> as expected when I'm using xvile, but not when I use vile. How can I
> setup vile to get this working like it does in xvile?
i suspect you have the "xterm-mouse" mode set.
if "xterm-mouse" is off (which is how i use vile), then vile
should behave exactly like the xterm in which it's running, with
regard to the mouse.
if "xterm-mouse" is on, then i'll quote from vile's help:
xterm-mouse Enables mouse-clicking if you are running within an
xterm. That is, it allows vile to receive mouse events.
Since this mode overrides xterm's cut & paste, you will
need to use the Shift key when pressing the mouse buttons
to cut and paste between X windows. Your TERM variable's
termcap entry should contain the string "xterm" for this to
work. (U)
summary: try turning off xterm-mouse, or use shift when cutting/pasting.
or, maybe something entirely different is going on, in which case
we'll both be glad that tom is not only the vile maintainer, but also
the xterm maintainer. :-)
paul
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