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

["Charl P. Botha" <c.p.botha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 09:40, John E. Davis wrote:
> Charl P. Botha <c.p.botha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >The documentation seems to imply that there should still be some interaction
> >with the system cut buffer even although JED determines its own set of mouse
> >symantics as well.  However, on the console with GPM, no text can be pasted
> >to JED from the "outside" or from JED to the "outside".
> 
> As far as I know, GPM has no mechanism for interacting with its
> internal buffers.  I believe that the standard way of dealing with the
> situation is to hold down the shift key when using the mouse for
> cutting and pasting.  This will cause jed to ignore the mouse
> altogether, and pass control directly to GPM.

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?

Thanks for your attention,
Charl

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