On 6 April 2015 at 13:27, Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > The newer stand-alone info reader no longer let's me select and > copy and paste a piece of text that it displays. > > For example, run 'info/ginfo doc/info-stnd.info' in a Gnome > Terminal and try to select the first paragraph with the mouse. > No go. > > $ info/ginfo --version | head -1 > info (GNU texinfo) 5.9.90 > > $ echo $TERM > xterm >
This is due to capturing mouse events to allow a mouse scrollwheel to scroll a node. In xterm and probably other terminal emulators as well you can select text with the shift key plus click and drag. Maybe we should add a note to the manual about this.
