Re: [vile] xvile's middle button paste moves cursor to the right

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Eric Krohn wrote:

> I like to paste text into xvile when it is command mode, as that preserves
> whitespace from the selection without autoindenting.  However, one of the
> annoying side effects of the middle mouse button paste is that the xvile
> cursor moves one position to the right.  Which means if I want to do a
> series of pastes into the midst of existing text lines, I keep having to
> move the cursor back to the beginning of the line.  Is this one of those
> genuine-vi compatibility settings, or is it a bug in xvile?

I see these in CHANGES.R6, which seem to describe the behavior (so it
was intentional, although one might want to change it):

(kev)   970120 (f)
        + x11.c (x_getc): Advance DOT by one after a paste so that default
          position for newly pasted text is *after* the text just pasted.

(kev)   970120 (e)
        + x11.c: Added resource controlling whether DOT is reset after making
          a selection.  Also added/extended code for implementing this.

(tom)   970119 (d)
        + modify select/paste behavior in xvile so that the default pastes text
          at the last cursor (or mouse-click) position before selecting
          (requested by Jukka Keto <address@hidden>)

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