Re: Possible bug in gnome-terminal

[Richard Polton <richard polton db com>]

ahosey@snowcrash.kiva.net wrote:

>: >
>: > > Using gnome 0.99.4, the gnome-terminal does not allow me to make a
>: > > selection with mouse button one which is larger than the display
>: > > area.
>: >
>: > How do you make slections larger than the screen with other terminal
>: > emulators?
>:
>: If I understand his report, he means that in other te's he can start in
>: row 1, column 8, move to row three, column 8, and have the intervening
>: two rows of text selected.
>
> I thought he meant that in xterm or rxvt (for instance) I can start a
> selection, drag _up_ the screen, and when I get to the top it will
> automatically scroll back thru the buffer, moving the scrollbar
> accordingly and highlighting as I go.
>

That is exactly the behaviour I am missing. (much better described too!)

>
> I don't get this behavior with 99.2 but someone else said it works out
> of CVS.
>
>             - A
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