On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:31:16 -0400 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <[email protected]> said:
> > It would appear that on Mar 22, Carsten Haitzler did say: > > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:56:21 -0400 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" > > <[email protected]> said: > > > > > thats how xterm works.. but not ctrl+c/v - middle mouse click to paste. > > > > just hilight to copy. old school x style. :) you can skip the ctrl+c > > > > bit :) > > > > > > That part works in a Konsole to, Provided I want to paste via middle > > > click. Which presents two difficulties for me. Both related to having > > > poor mouse coordination. > > > (1)When I paste to any gui application via the middle click. > > > invariably the text cursor is first moved to the mouse pointer position. > > > > THAT behavior in apps/toolkits, i find INCREDIBLY annoying. :( > > > > > Since I have difficulty correctly positioning anything with the mouse I > > > find it much easier to position the text cursor with the keyboard and then > > > use a keyboard shortcut to paste to it. Hence the right click menu > > > followed by the "c" to copy the marked text to the correct buffer for > > > pasting with ^V... > > > > sure, but in xterm it'll go where the text cursor is.. YAY! :) > > > > Likewise when pasting *_to_* Konsole, whether via a successful middle click > or a right click menu->"p" > > > > (2)I sometimes need to make several attempts, just to mark the > > > correct text string with the mouse. Once I finally get the right text > > > segment marked, I'm not willing to trust my poor mouse coordination to > > > attempt emulating the middle click by cording the left and right buttons, > > > because I'm just as likely to accidentally mark something new as to > > > actually paste the contents that used to be in the gpm clipboard. {sigh} > > > > have u tried double/triple click and customising the "cut chars" (the chars > > where the term decides a word begins/ends). i use: > > > > XTerm*.charClass: > > 37-38:48,43:48,45-57:48,60:48,62:48,64-90:48,95:48,97-122:48,124:48,126:48 > > > > very much more usable for me :) > > Yes I use both double and triple clicking as often as I can avoid having to > hold a mouse button down and drag the pointer to mark something. > > I'm guessing this "XTerm*.charClass:" definition goes in ~/.Xresources? > Or alternatively could it somehow be added to a cli string like: This 80+ > column easy eye string from one of my keyboard shortcuts??? yeah. ~/.Xdefaults (or .Xresources - same thing). xrdb -load .Xdefaults on login or whenever u update. e17 has an option to do this for u. > xterm -bg gray75 -fg DarkBlue -fn 12x24 -geometry 82x25 you can convert all these to lines in your .Xdefaults and save fat cmdlines :) > > > > one of these days we have to modernize eterm (or start afresh) and make > > > > an e terminal that fits in with modern efl (uses evas, edje, ecore > > > > etc.)... one of these days. > > > > > > Speaking of Eterm, how about a trip down memory lane? I have an old > > > memory backed up by an old screenshot of a surreal landscape image with a > > > command prompt printed on the upper lefthand corner and a boarder that > > > referred to the terminal window as being something called "Eterm-0.8.10". > > > At the time I was a kde user. And I hadn't even heard of Enlightenment > > > yet. But somehow I found this Eterm terminal that displayed a different > > > surreal landscape as a background image every time I initialized it. > > > Though if memory serves, I found > > > > yup. random background feature. picks 1 from a list. :) > > > > > it hard to actually use because the background image often interfered > > > with the legibility of the text. S0 what I did was to open a full screen > > > session of it > > > > yeah. poor choice in backgrounds to make sure they contrast from the text > > colors. that's all. you could change the wallpaper set yourself if u wanted > > to. > > > > Yeah, but at the time I didn't know where to find such kool graphic > images... So of course whenever I noticed one I liked, a snapshot of it was > added to the folder I keep my personal background images in... > > Of course, that means that every now and then, when I'm too tired to > realize it's just a background image I get a little frustrated trying to > type a command into what looks like my bash prompt in the upper left hand > corner... ;-) > > What would have had me actually "*_using_*" that version of Eterm a lot would > have been a good opaque contrasting "character" background for all printable > text characters So that you only saw those portions of the background that > wasn't currently printed on... it probably should just dim the bg anyway. it'd look rather horrid with darkened blocks around chars. reality is that the bg should be carefully designed/selected to work will wiuth what is going to be on top. if what is on top is to be light text, then ensure the bg is dark, and vice-versa. > Thanks again. > > -- > | ~^~ ~^~ > | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook > | ^ J(tWdy)P > | \___/ <<[email protected]>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
