[vox-tech] modifying mouse selection behavior under X

[Rick O'Shaughnessy]

I think Shawn is correct. I'm using Eterm and in the theme.cfg file I can
change the behavior you mention with this line:

# The characters to use as word delimiters for double-click selection
    cut_chars "\t\\\`\\\"\'&() *,;<=>?@[]{|}"

Double-clicking on "2.96688494e+05" thus copies the whole string. (Eterm is
cool. It also allows semi-transparent windows, and I can log sessions to a
file with shift-PrtScrn.)

Rick



Peter Jay Salzman 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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