From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 26 08:12:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA13998 for current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA13991; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linus.demon.co.uk (linus.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.220]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA25301 ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 08:11:51 -0700 Received: (from mark@localhost) by linus.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA01803; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:06:47 GMT Message-Id: <199606261606.QAA01803@linus.demon.co.uk> From: mark@linus.demon.co.uk (Mark Valentine) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 16:06:47 +0000 In-Reply-To: sos@freebsd.org's message of Jun 26, 4:25pm X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD current) Subject: Re: RFC: cut&paste funtionality... Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: sos@freebsd.org > Date: Wed 26 Jun, 1996 > Subject: RFC: cut&paste funtionality... > 1. Catch all updates and change the marking to comply > > 2. Remove the marking on all updates. > > 3. Only show the marked text when actually doing the > cut action, remove as soon as the mousebutton is > released. I think (3) misses important visual feedback - you can't switch back to a vty to remind yourself what's in your buffer before you paste it, and it's often difficult to tell whether the character at the end was actually marked or not (especially with small fonts - I tend to move the mouse a wee bit as I release the button). I think something close to xterm's behaviour might be to remove the marking only if writing to any character cell it covers, but from what you say that's even more code than (2). Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine at Home