black@masscomp.UUCP (Sam Black) (05/10/89)
I'm trying to figure out how to use selections and cut buffers in xterm.
According to the man page, you should be able to set up something like:
XTerm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
~Shift ~Meta <Btn2Up>: insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift ~Meta <Btn2Up>: insert-selection(SECONDARY, CUT_BUFFER1) \n\
Shift ~Meta <Btn3Down>:start-extend() \n\
~Shift ~Meta <BtnUp>: select-end(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Shift ~Meta <BtnUp>: select-end(SECONDARY, CUT_BUFFER1)
which "should" allow you to have multiple selections available for cut/paste.
However, the insert-selection always seems to paste the most recently defined
selection, be it PRIMARY or SECONDARY. Does anyone out there know what's going
on? Is there any way to do what I want? Will Lance marry Jill? Will Ollie
get accquitted? Does anyone care?
- sam black
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> Date: 9 May 89 21:00:05 GMT > From: Sam Black <ukma!mailrus!ulowell!masscomp!black@ohio-state.arpa> > ... > According to the man page, you should be able to set up something like: > ... > which "should" allow you to have multiple selections available for cut/paste. The man page didn't make clear that currently an individual xterm can only _provide_ one selection at a time. The example you extracted works just fine for pasting multiple selections or for making the (single) highlighted region one of the selections. This is probably a mis-feature of the R3 implementation, but with our current work queue it's unlikely to be fixed in the next release. We'll fix the docs instead.