On 8 May 2014 18:00, Thomas Martitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 08.05.2014 09:53, schrieb Lex Trotman: > >>> Ah, it also works in vim (didn't test emacs though).... I'm pretty sure >>> all >>> curses-based apps work. >> >> Terminal based apps do that because they cannot locate another >> position whilst keeping the selection, since they only have one >> cursor. Graphical UIs have a text cursor and a mouse cursor (pointer) >> and so can nominate the cursor position without moving the text >> selection. > > > I think he was referring to the fact that when you select a text in a > terminal (regardless of CLI or TUI) without moving the text cursor, and then > click in the terminal window (this still doesn't move the text cursor but > clears the selection), then the last-selected text is still pasted. This is > the case e.g. in the bash prompt of gnome-terminal.
Sorry to be unclear, I was referring to the bit about curses based apps. Things like gnome-terminal et al are not curses based but since they have to support curses I would expect that they tend to operate in the same manner. But I havn't really thought about the implications of having to pretend to be a stupid character based display, whilst actually being a fully graphic app. I expect it could be confusing :) Cheers Lex > > Best regards > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
