GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 13485
Double clicked words grow by a character when you move the mouse
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Package: gnome-terminal Severity: normal Version: 1.2.1 Synopsis: Double clicked words grow by a character when you move the mouse Class: sw-bug Distribution: Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) System: Linux 2.2.15 i686 unknown C library: glibc-2.1.3-15 C compiler: egcs-2.91.66 glib: 1.2.8 GTK+: 1.2.8 ORBit: ORBit 0.5.1 gnome-libs: gnome-libs 1.2.1 libxml: 1.8.7 gnome-print: gnome-print-0.20 gnome-core: gnome-core 1.2.1 Description: Double clicking on words in gnome-terminal highlights them normally, but if you move the mouse up a line and down a line while holding the button down an extra character gets added to the highlighted area. I can reproduce this bug when the word is at the beginning of a line. xterm and rxvt do not exhibit this behavior. Also, this may be more of a wishlist item, but highlighted text that is scrolled off of the screen should stay highlighted. It's mind-numbing finding your place again if you are going through a list of items one-by-one, pasting them into the same window. There are probably other bugs with highlighting, too. ------- Bug moved to this database by debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-01-27 15:17 ------- This bug was previously known as bug 13485 at http://bugs.gnome.org/ http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13485 Originally filed under the gnome-core product and gnome-terminal component. Unknown version 1.2.x in product gnome-core. Setting version to the default, "unspecified". The original reporter (jgotts@linuxsavvy.com) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-core-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Has this been fixed in a later release?
Created attachment 5624 [details] [review] Fix for this bug
No, but the attached patch was posted to either gnome-list or gnome-devel-list which fixes the problem. The "Product" field should be changed to gnome-libs, the "Component" field should be changed to zvt, and the "Target Milestone" field should be changed to 1.4.1. Though I submitted the original bug report, something broken is preventing me from doing this.
I can't reproduce this highlighting bug... Maybe I don't understand the report. (I'm using gnome-libs current stable cvs)
Can someone confirm this as fixed?
I know this patch wasn't applied, but I still can't reproduce the problem...
Applied. I just hope it doesn't conflict with the upcoming bugfixes from Cristiano. :|
Hmm. The patch breaks dingus click. Unless you can fix that I'm going to revert it. Ideas for a fix?
The patch broke ctrl+click on urls in gnome-terminal. It was reverted in the last gnome-libs release.
Can't reproduce this anymore. Has it been fixed as part of some other change? I'll close it now, but feel free to reopen again if this is not the case.