Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 1.2.1
Severity: wishlist

xterm has very useful (but barely documented) little feature that I would
*really* like to see in gnome-terminal.  It is activated with

XTerm*cutToBeginningOfLine: false

in .Xresources.

The idea is that a single or double click works as before, to set the mark
and select a word.  But triple click only selects the word that the cursor
is on and everything to the *right*.  If you think for a moment about why
you might use triple click most often (selecting portions of previous
commands) you'll see that this can be very useful.  In fact, it seems to me
that it is *extremely* rare that one really wants to select an entire line,
I almost always want to, for instance, skip prompts.  I suppose it would
best to keep it an option, but I hope it will be documented better than
xterm's feature... it seems to me that most people would use this if they
knew about it.

  jj




------- Bug moved to this database by debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-01-27 15:17 -------
This bug was previously known as bug 18115 at http://bugs.gnome.org/
http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18115
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 (jj@lcs.mit.edu) 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.