Re: Bug#174370: [dparsons@xxxxxxxxxx: Bug#174370: jed: copy/paste does not work on the console (gpm)]

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Charl P. Botha <c.p.botha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I did try this (because this is how many other console/GPM applications
>handle this) but still could not get it to work.  I'll give it another
>shot tonight when I get home to my development machine  You might want
>to have a look, but gpmmouse.c does seem to pass the event off to JED
>even if the shift key is depressed.  Is this correct?

That appears to be the case.  I believe that shift-mouse and
ctrl-mouse handling was added to the gpmmouse.c to make it consistent
as much as possible with Xjed and jed under DOS/Windows.  I suspect
that Alt-mouse key can be used to bypass jed.  It will take me a few
days before I can actually test this hypothesis.

Perhaps I should add some gpm-specific function that allows the user
to specify what events should be trapped by jed, e.g., shift-mouse.

In any case, at the moment I do not regard the problem as a bug but
more of a wishlist item.  Of course, jed's handling of gpm events can
be turned off via the gpm_disable_mouse function.

Thanks,
--John

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