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In article 8654@emory.mathcs.emory.edu, km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:
>The selection mechanism doesn't seem to work normally in Jet. For
>example:
>
> * 4 clicks selects all the visibile text in the window, but not the
>   text that has scrolled off (or the text beyond the end of the window).
>
> * It is impossible to select text unless it will all fit in the visible 
>   window. Normally you start the selection with mouse button 1, scroll
>   to the end of text you want to select and then press button 2 to mark 
>   the end. With Jet any scrolling deactivates the beginning of the
>   selection.
>
>Any ideas what is going on. I thought the toolkit (tnt) enforced the OpenLook
>selection behavior.

TNT doesn't actually enforce anything.  But it's generally more difficult
to get non-OpenLook behavour.  However, this is one of the cases where
application-specific functionality is required, and the author of jet
chose to only allow selection in the visible area.  (He also didn't
implement Quick selections.)  These are both known bugs which may be fixed
in some future release.

>Its too bad about this behavior. Jet seems to be the only terminal emulator
>around that simultaneously can do drop and drag, and handle scrolling.

It's also one of a very few that deals with both scrolling and curses-type
control sequences at the same time.



You have the source, feel free to post a fix... :-)


-Pat

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