Subject: Mouse cutNpaste

From: Yossi Itzkovich <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 10:29:15 +0200 (IST)

Hi,

Is there a way to tell pine, that as a default to act as a regular window,
and thus using the mouse cut and paste **without** the shift key ?

Thanks,

Yossi

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From: Noone Special <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 08:17:39 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, Yossi Itzkovich wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I use pine for Unix(Solaris).
 
Is that pine for unix or do you run it in an X-window on console or what?

CUT/PASTE (with the mouse) in a telnet session is handled by the telnet
application and would have nothing at all to do with pine.

Pat

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From: Yossi Itzkovich <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 15:25:51 +0200 (IST)

> application and would have nothing at all to do with pine.
Pat,

It is a X windows system.  It's not telnet.

Yossi

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From: Shawn Jeffries <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 19:05:15 -0400 (EDT)

>It is a X windows system.  It's not telnet.

from the Pine help under MAIN-SETUP-CONFIG

        FEATURE: enable-mouse-in-xterm
 
This feature controls whether or not an X terminal mouse can be used with
Pine.  If set, and the $DISPLAY variable indicates that an X terminal is
being used, the left mouse button on the mouse can be used to select text
or commands.
 
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.
 
<End of help on this topic>

    Shawn M. Jeffries
    [email-masked]

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From: Yossi Itzkovich <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 08:38:15 +0200 (IST)

> <End of help on this topic>
Shawn,

Thanks for the reply BUT:

My question was about using CUT/PASTE  **Without** the SHIFT key !

I don't know how and when, but I remember that sometimes my Pine works as
a real X-window without the use of the SHIFT key, and I don't know how to
make it act like this.

Thanks,

Yossi

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From: Shawn Jeffries <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 09:49:48 -0400 (EDT)

>a real X-window without the use of the SHIFT key, and I don't know how to

Yeah, the key words there were "If this feature is set". AFAIK, if you
UN-SET this option, you should have normal cut'n'paste operation, but
you'll lose the ability to click on the menu items. IOW :

[X]  enable-mouse-in-xterm    --- left button used to select commands
                                  need to use SHIFT to cut'n'paste

[ ]  enable-mouse-in-xterm    --- cannot select menu commands
                                  normal xterm cut'n'paste

Hope this helps.

    Shawn M. Jeffries
    [email-masked]