Pádraig Brady wrote: > Dan Jacobson wrote: > > All I know is in xterm I click three times and all of '...' including > > the quotes gets copied, which is fine with me. Just keep it all 0x27. > > Ah right that's an xterm specific feature. See XTerm*on3Clicks here: > http://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2013/07/hidden-gems-of-xterm.html
Actually no. Triple click to select the full line is a standard feature of X Windows since forever. I use it all of the time in Firefox and Chromium for instance. Every X widget should support it natively. Since triple clicks copy the entire line then the `...' being part of the entire line will get copied too. But I don't think the ` is the worst part of that. The worst part is the -> part. You wouldn't want to be pasting that part into a shell. Selecting the entire line would be useful for pasting as plain text such as into an editor. (I am not suggesting changing the -> but just pointing it out.) FWIW regardless of the historical font (that I have never seen in my lifetime) of ` and ' being symmetrical I have never liked the use of the `...' in quote context. I would prefer to have the quoted strings use '...' too. I know several projects have gone that way. It looks better and is more useful both at the same time. Bob
