From: henne@math.ias.EDU (Leslie R. Henne)
Subject: Re: ideas on xterm paste irritation?
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To: wolf@cs.stanford.edu
Cc: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu

In <C78u6q.D0D@deshaw.com>, wolf@cs.stanford.edu writes:

>Moving the mouse out of the xterm window before
>clicking up will not abort the paste.  In fact, once that middle
>button is pressed down, the paste is inevitable.

>So, the obvious questions.  Is there some way around this?  And, do
>others feel that moving the mouse out of an xterm window before
>release should abort the paste?  I would have thought this would have
>been a common enough problem that someone would have changed xterm by
>now, but maybe it's just me.

>Michael

It is not just you.  I have been aggravated many times by the mouse making
hay of my maladroitness, and would be _ever_ grateful to everyone who would
make keyboard alternatives for ALL mouse actions.

lsrh

