Re: clipboard again (was Re: Gnumeric and RHEL3)

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:12:51AM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:12:48PM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > There are no points for *talking* about fixing xterm.  You need to do
> > it and then sit down and wait for deployment.
>
> To achieve what you seem to want is pretty simple, just add the following
> one-liner to your VT100 translations in the X resource database, you should
> be able to find more detailed instructions in the manual.
>
> <BtnUp>:select-end(CLIPBOARD, PRIMARY)

This will merge more nicely into the stock xterm
XTerm*VT100*translations:       #override \
    <BtnUp>:select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0) 

man xterm will list the stock bindings

> Fixing the mistake in the wrong place helps no-one. I seem to remember
> suggesting that Gnumeric didn't seem to use the middle mouse button for
> anything on empty cells at least, and that seemed an appropriate place
> to put a paste-PRIMARY feature, since some people seem to want one. I
> don't know whether Jody would accept a patch to do that, or whether I
> might be mistaken about the unused status of MMB click in Gnumeric.

Nothing currently uses it (aside from some demo drag and drop code)
I'd accept a patch.