Re: how to change mouse select behavior?

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Tim Roberts wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Jeff Chua wrote:
>>
>>> It's xterm. I'm referring to double-clicking on "1233:03030-30303"
>>> and it'll select the whole 1233:03030-30303 instead of 1233
>>
>>
>> In #208 that was done by changing the charClass resource in the XTerm
>> app-defaults file.  I commented out that line (near the end of the
>> file) and added in xterm's code (but did not configure in the
>> app-defaults file) support for regular expressions.  There is a
>> comparable example using regular expressions to select URLs at the
>> bottom of the app-defaults file, also commented-out.
>
>
> This paragraph suggests to me that the OP can restore this behavior for
> himself by adding the appropriate charClass definition into his private
> Xresources.  Do I misunderstand?

You're reading it correctly.  I was pointing out that there is a better
solution than doing that.

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