On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> Â 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, Fedora 11 (and hopefully later versions), default settings. $ appres XTerm | grep charClass; echo nada nada It's probably an ubuntu thing. > without dragging. Just right-click to extend the selection. It's a lot easier than reducing an over-aggressive selection (read: impossible). Try using right-click to adjust a double-click selection with and without the charClass setting that you mention below. > 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: Â Â 33:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,126:48,95:48 Thanks, now I know what to disable when I use ubuntu. $ echo charClass | xrdb -remove # Then start a new xterm -Brandon -- 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