Re: [dev] [st][patch] Allow mouse selection override using ShiftMask

From: Charlie Kester <corky1951_AT_comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:15:09 -0700

On Mon 12 May 2014 at 07:41:49 PDT Roberto E. Vargas Caballero wrote:
>
>> [1]: from dvtm(1) manpage:
>> Copy and Paste
>> By default dvtm captures mouse events to provide the
>> actions listed below. Unfortunately this
>
>Why these actions should be provided by dvtm? X server supplies for
>all the programs, so I think is the correct place for it, because in
>other case you need to duplicate this functionality in all the programs.

One reason, it seems to me, is to confine the action to one dvtm/tmux pane
when selecting a multiline region of text. st has no awareness that its
window has been divided into more than one pane and therefore cannot wrap the
selection at pane boundaries.

dvtm already handles mouse clicks to select the active pane, fwiw.
Received on Mon May 12 2014 - 18:15:09 CEST