On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Raphaël Proust <raphla...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was a similar idea proposed sometime ago on the mailing list[0]. Interesting, I have not seen that patch before but it looks almost identical :)
> And a discussion following about who's responsibility it is to provide > the feature. > ... E.g., dvtm (which has more weight in a suckless > discussion than tmux) already provide this[1] escape mechanism. I don't know if dvtm has more weight in a suckless discussion. As far as I can tell alot of people use tmux, but I don't have any hard numbers or anything. This discussion is becoming a bit confusing since dvtm, tmux and st have some overlapping functionality. I can disable mode-mouse in tmux, but this was just one example. There are alot more applications that use different mouse behaviour which is useful to override. > Anyone has further ideas about such a feature and whether it belongs to the > terminal? In st's-case I think it belongs in st, since it's an X application (for X clipboard copy/paste) and so it's the most practical layer to add this functionality (afaict). > (Tangentially, a lot of suckless software is designed with dwm in mind > rather than other window managers. Should st be designed with dvtm in > mind rather than other terminal managers?) > No it should not. Suckless software should work independent of eachother assuming it's environment is somewhat sane (imho). As described in the post you linked (http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1402/20050.html) maybe ShiftMask can be added as a configurable shortcut to allow shortcuts using ShiftMask and also allow things like rectangular (SEL_RECTANGULAR) to work? Kind regards, Hiltjo