I think if you mess with xterm's -cc (cut chars) option you can make it not break words at a period. Poke around in the man page.
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 12:28 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > is there a way to modify the selection behavior of the mouse under X? > > for instance, in this line: > > Z = 2.96688494e+05 > > by double clicking, i can select "96688494e". by triple clicking i get > the entire line of the xterm. it's more useful for me for the selection > to be based on spaces rather than punctuation. > > is there a way to modify X's mouse behavior so that a double click will > select the whole number "2.96688494e+05"? > > also, IP numbers have the same problem: > > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > it would be nice to be able to select a whole IP number rather than just > a quad (or a period depending on where you click). > > pete > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
