[vox-tech] modifying mouse selection behavior under X

ALLO (Alfredo Lopez) vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:14:56 -0700


-----Partial Original Message-----
From: Peter Jay Salzman [mailto:p@dirac.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:07 PM

>btw, what exactly is a KDE compose window?
>is that like an xterm?  an html editor?

>pete

I may be wrong but I think he meant "Konsole" window.  Just a KDE wat to
call a terminal window.

Alfredo



> On Tuesday 09 April 2002 12:28 pm, you wrote:
> > is there a way to modify the selection behavior of the mouse under 
> > X?
> >
> > for instance, in this line:
> >
> > Z = 2.96688494e+05
> >
> > by double clicking, i can select "96688494e".  by triple clicking i 
> > get the entire line of the xterm.  it's more useful for me for the 
> > selection to be based on spaces rather than punctuation.
> >
> > is there a way to modify X's mouse behavior so that a double click 
> > will select the whole number  "2.96688494e+05"?
> >
> > also, IP numbers have the same problem:
> >
> > nameserver 192.168.0.1
> >
> > it would be nice to be able to select a whole IP number rather than 
> > just a quad (or a period depending on where you click).
> >
> > pete
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