19381 – default gpm charset doesn't allow double-click selection of URLs

Bug 19381 - default gpm charset doesn't allow double-click selection of URLs

Summary: default gpm charset doesn't allow double-click selection of URLs

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-04-15 16:53 UTC by leon j. breedt
Modified:	2003-05-02 06:59 UTC (History)
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Description leon j. breedt 2003-04-15 16:53:21 UTC

The default character set of gpm (specified by -l) doesn't allow
URLs, names with ~ or : in them, etc. Debian has a more friendly one
that works out of the box for selection of such items with double-clicking.

Suggestion: Either make default, or include the following line in the APPEND= portion of /etc/conf.d/gpm:

APPEND="-l \"a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""

This makes life a lot easier for those of us living in console mode most of the time :)

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Michael M Nazaroff (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-05-02 06:59:33 UTC

Commited changes to conf.d/gpm, I think this  is good appropriate fix.  Did not bump revision up for such a small change.