Subject: cut&paste in X doesn't work for pine 3.9.5!

From: [email-masked] (AC)
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:20:23 GMT

Hi everyone,

	I apologize if this question has already been posed in this newsgroup. but I am
having the incredibly annoying problem of not being able to cut and paste
from pine 3.9.5 when it runs inside an xterm. I am using Debian Linux, 
kernel 2.0.27, libc.so.5.4.13, and "vanilla" xterms -- I have the
"enable-mouse-in-Xterm" option enabled, only it seems to do nothing.
DO I need to downgrade to 3.94?

Is this a known bug? How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance,
--ANindya
Network Engineer/DNS Admin
[email-masked]

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:59:27 +0000 (GMT)

> DO I need to downgrade to 3.94?

Extract from the built-in help for the "enable-mouse-in-xterm" variable in
the Setup Configuration screen:

*****
Note: if this feature is set, the behavior of X terminal cut-and-paste is
also modified.  It is necessary to hold the shift key down while clicking
left or middle mouse buttons for the normal xterm cut/paste operations.
*****

Cheers,

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From: fxfjn@morgana (Frankie J. Nichols)
Date: 27 Feb 1997 21:20:44 GMT

Xterm doesn't support cut and paste in any applications so it wouldn't
matter what version of pine you are running

: having the incredibly annoying problem of not being able to cut and paste
: from pine 3.9.5 when it runs inside an xterm. I am using Debian Linux,

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From: Dean Pentcheff <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Feb 1997 01:06:09 -0500

> : from pine 3.9.5 when it runs inside an xterm. I am using Debian Linux, 

That turns out not to be the case.  Xterm does support cut and paste
quite nicely, thank you (or did a little genie instantly retype the
list of 243 email addresses I just pasted from an xterm window into a
Pine message?).

Two things of which you need to be aware for cut and paste with Pine
in xterms: make sure the "enable mouse in xterm" option is checked in
Pine's Main/Setup/Config; and (except for simple cursor placement)
hold down the shift key while using the mouse in Pine.  Why the Pine
designers decided that their program needed shift-drag or shift-click
instead of the more conventional usage, I don't know, but that's the
way it is.

Having become used to the shift oddity, I use cut and paste in Pine a
fair bit.

-Dean
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