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Bug 93674 - extend selection with right mouse button
extend selection with right mouse button
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Havoc Pennington
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-19 15:55 UTC by Christian Marillat
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
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Description Christian Marillat 2002-09-19 15:55:11 UTC 
Hi,

Most X applications with text entry, especially terminal emulators,
support copying (for c&p) like this: left click (or double/triple
click or drag) starts a selection, subsequent right clicks extend it.

gnome-terminal 1.x supported this fine if in "selection mode", and
showed the menu otherwise. Since some time (probably the
1.x => 2.x transition), it does no longer work.

I vote for reinstatement of the old policy: right click extends a
selection if the selection is "active", else it pops up the menu. 
Some-modifier + right click always pops up the menu.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-19 18:46:13 UTC 
This bug is a dup (I think it's a dup of a closed bug from Telsa)

It breaks the right-click menu to do this, IMO. Every app on the
system does selection the same way; if we changed all text boxes on
the GTK level, then I'd see changing the terminal, but I'm not in
favor of a terminal-specific change in selection UI. There's no reason
a terminal is special in this respect.
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-22 21:33:41 UTC 
I can't find the dup right now, but I closed it WONTFIX earlier today.
It was indeed from Telsa. The rationale is on the dup bug.