Am 9/29/2010 0:40, schrieb Brandon Casey: > On 09/28/2010 05:23 PM, Aaron Plattner wrote: >> Switching to a detached head prints something like >> >> HEAD is now at 9d14017... dir.c: squelch false uninitialized memory warning >> >> These dots get selected when you double-click on the abbreviated >> commit hash, which makes it annoying to copy and paste. > > This must be another gnome-terminal/konsole "innovation". > > xterm still does the "right thing"(tm) _and_ it doesn't eat my > alt keystrokes like alt-b to move the cursor back a word. /rant You must be running an xterm with settings from the stone ages. I had the impression that modern installations have the selection configured such that a file path can be selected with a mere double-click, without dragging. For this, the dot must be in the same class as letters and digits. Just for reference (I don't know how to read this): $ appres XTerm | grep charClass *charClass: 33:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,126:48,95:48 That said, I welcome this change, though I'd just have dropped ... or replaced with a colon (preference for the second). -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html