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Bug 129351 - xterm-211 double-click no longer selects text
Summary: xterm-211 double-click no longer selects text
Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2006-04-09 08:17 UTC by Stuart Shelton
Modified: 2006-04-09 10:05 UTC (History)
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Description Stuart Shelton 2006-04-09 08:17:32 UTC
xterm-211 (which finally fixes the xterm scrollbar problems) no longer allows words to be selected by double-clicking them.

(Previously, double-clicking on a character would select everything to the left and right up to the first space character - but not the entire area must be drag-selected).

This might be an app-defaults change.

Can double-click-to-select be enabled on xterm 211?
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-04-09 08:19:47 UTC
Works perferctly fine here, so - how about you fix your config instead of filing a  bug?
Comment 2 Stuart Shelton 2006-04-09 10:00:16 UTC
Well, I wouldn't have gone to the effort of filing a bug if I knew what the answer was or *how* to fix my config!

In the end, I discovered that the lines:

! Here is a pattern that is useful for double-clicking on a URL:
!*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37-38:48,43-47:48,58:48,61:48,63-64:48,126:48
!
! Alternatively,
!*on2Clicks: regex [[:alpha:]]+://([[:alnum:]!#+,./=?@~-]|(%[[:xdigit:]][[:xdigit:]]))+

... in app-defaults/XTerm actually disables double-clicking in the general sense if uncommented.

This is non-obivous, and could well lead to further bugs being filed...

I suggest that either a comment be added to this effect, or these lines be removed from the XTerm file.
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-04-09 10:05:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> ... in app-defaults/XTerm actually disables double-clicking in the general
> sense if uncommented.
> 
> This is non-obivous, and could well lead to further bugs being filed...
> 
> I suggest that either a comment be added to this effect, or these lines be
> removed from the XTerm file.

Those lines are commented out by default...