gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) (07/11/89)
Can anyone tell me about the mouse in VersaTerm? Can you select text? Can you use the mouse for coursor moves? Does the terminal somehow 'forget' that there is a mouse attached like in RR? I cannot stand RR anymore. The VT100 emulation sucks. It seems to forget where the mouse os all the time, and half the tie the mouse doesn't work IN THE SAME EMACS SESSION! sigh... nrg -- York University |"_Wanting_ to think is one thing; Department of Philosophy | having a talent for thinking another" Toronto, Ontario, Canada | - L. Wittgenstein (CV 44) _____________________________________________________________________________
earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) (07/12/89)
In article <2637@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes: >Can anyone tell me about the mouse in VersaTerm? Can you select text? >Can you use the mouse for coursor moves? Does the terminal somehow >'forget' that there is a mouse attached like in RR? Yes, yes, yes, no. >I cannot stand RR anymore. The VT100 emulation sucks. It seems to >forget where the mouse os all the time, and half the tie the mouse >doesn't work IN THE SAME EMACS SESSION! I am a confirmed VersaTerm PRO user, and have been since the program first came out. The VT100 emulation is excellent, except it doesn't do some of the less useful text modes like blinking or double-width. You can do all sorts of things with the mouse: Double-click a word. The word plus a carriage return is pasted to the serial port. Handy for repeating commands. Shift-double-click does the same, but with no carriage return. Handy for composing new commands. You can configure the mouse to send emacs-style, vi-style, or ANSI-style cursor key commands. You can configure the mouse to be "live" when the option key is depressed, or "live" all the time. The mouse continues to work throughout emacs sessions. I hear the VersaTerm VT100 emulation is just as good as the VersaTerm PRO VT100. Earle R. Horton "People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it." Salada Tag Lines
z8my@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (07/12/89)
In article <2637@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes: >Can anyone tell me about the mouse in VersaTerm? Can you select text? >Can you use the mouse for coursor moves? Does the terminal somehow >'forget' that there is a mouse attached like in RR? The mouse support is fairly good in VersaTerm. You can select text, and if stuff comes in, it doesn't get lost, and the selected text remains selected. It also has a "smart mouse" feature, where you click on a point (with the option key held down--may be configurable, don't remember) and VersaTerm generates a sequence of characters to move the cursor to that location. This works with anything that has (a) arrow keys (b) vi style bindings, (c) EMACS style bindings. >I cannot stand RR anymore. The VT100 emulation sucks. It seems to >forget where the mouse os all the time, and half the tie the mouse >doesn't work IN THE SAME EMACS SESSION! And VersaTerm has solid VT100 emultaion... > >sigh... > > >nrg > >-- >York University |"_Wanting_ to think is one thing; >Department of Philosophy | having a talent for thinking another" >Toronto, Ontario, Canada | - L. Wittgenstein (CV 44) >_____________________________________________________________________________ Samuel Paik d65y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu surviving college student--anyone looking for a computer engineer/programmer in two years?
eynon@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Barry Eynon) (07/12/89)
In article <2637@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes: >Can anyone tell me about the mouse in VersaTerm? Can you select text? >Can you use the mouse for coursor moves? Does the terminal somehow >'forget' that there is a mouse attached like in RR? You can select, copy and paste text from anywhere in the scrollback buffer with Versaterm. There even is a convenient Copy-Paste command to retrieve old input lines, etc. You can also print or save any selection to a file, print or file the incoming stream, or send a file as input to the host as a text stream. With the option key held down, the clicking the cursor sends a set of keystrokes to move the host cursor to the point clicked at. You have the option of sending arrow keys, vi keys, or emacs keys. > >I cannot stand RR anymore. The VT100 emulation sucks. It seems to >forget where the mouse os all the time, and half the tie the mouse >doesn't work IN THE SAME EMACS SESSION! Versaterm has been solid for a long time. Version 4.0 is just out with some nice enhancements, but I switched a long time ago, and never regretted it for a moment. -Barry Eynon eynon@lindy.stanford.edu P.S. For those complaining about Microphone, it offers a choice of Underline or Block cursor, either blinking or nonblinking.
thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod) (07/13/89)
In article <2637@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes: >Can anyone tell me about the mouse in VersaTerm? Can you select text? Yes. Clicking and dragging anywhere in the terminal window selects text. Command-/ (or double-clicking a selection) copies to the clipboard AND pastes to the terminal window in one shot. >Can you use the mouse for coursor moves? Does the terminal somehow Yes, if the option key is held down while clicking the mouse, the cursor is moved to that location. The mouse-controlled cursor movement can be configured for vi, emacs, or plain 'arrow' cursor control. Naturally, the arrow keys on your keyboard move the cursor properly as well. >I cannot stand RR anymore. The VT100 emulation sucks. It seems to >forget where the mouse os all the time, and half the tie the mouse >doesn't work IN THE SAME EMACS SESSION! VersaTerm's VT100 emulation has been flawless, in my experience. (Your definition of 'flawless' may vary, mine is simply "it works consistently, reliably, and exactly as I expect it to.") VersaTerm's Kermit implementation also works flawlessly, and it's fast. -- ========== ....... ============================================= Ken McLeod :. .: UUCP: ...{spsd,zardoz,felix}!dhw68k!thecloud ========== :::.. ..::: INTERNET: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com //// =============================================
cosmos@druhi.ATT.COM (GuestRA) (07/14/89)
VersaTerm handles the mouse just fine (in version 4.0, the most recent one). It has a couple of options for configuration. I set mine up so that the emacs mouse is the default. For text selection (Mac side), you hold down the option key and then get the insertion bar cursor. I don't think it works for emacs selection, just moving around. Ron Guest
straka@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (richard.j.straka) (07/24/89)
In article <18995@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> z8my@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Samuel Paik) writes: >In article <2637@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes: >>Can anyone tell me about the mouse in VersaTerm? Can you select text? >>Can you use the mouse for coursor moves? Does the terminal somehow >>'forget' that there is a mouse attached like in RR? > >The mouse support is fairly good in VersaTerm. You can select text, and A further neat feature is that if you double-click, the word that is selected gets sent to the host. Therefore, you can save a lot of typing if you need to edit a file that has a 23 billion character file name. Just type "emacs" or "vi" <doubleclick filename on that 'lf' you just did>, and presto! Pretty neat little feature.