Re: patch for select in zvt



On Wed, 16 May 2001, Damian Ivereigh wrote:

> On 16 May 2001 07:03:49 +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> > If this is purely for selection, I have never seen why people use
> > the left mouse button all the time. Left-click at start. Right click
> > at end. Damn sight easier than trying to co-ordinate clicking, holding
> > the button down, and dragging the mouse all at the same time :)
> > 
> > I suspect it's because they don't know you can do it. I remember trying
> > to learn to use a mouse very clearly, and I was rather annoyed when
> > I discovered this and wondered why no-one had told me about it before :)
> 
> I never knew you could do that! Nor did my collegue sitting next to me!
> That is a nice feature. Trouble is it doesn't work in other places (like
> gedit).

Me neither, I'm going to give this a go for a while.  The most likely
explaination as to why gedit doesn't have this is that the authors of
gedit didn't know about it either :)  Emacs does though.

> So yes I too am annoyed that I didn't know about this!

Me too!

njh





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