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hughitt1

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Registered: 2010-02-18

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URxvt shift + left mouse-click select behavior?

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has any insight into the behavior of URxvt when using shift + left-click to select text in the terminal?

When just using the mouse to select text without hold shift, everything works as expected: the selection starts at the position clicked and continues until the button is released.

When attempting to use shift + left-mouse (e.g. to select text in a tmux session), however, the behavior does not seem as consistent. Sometimes the selection will work as expected, but other times the beginning of the selection will jump a number of lines up or down from the location clicked, making it difficult to select the text of interest. It seems like where the selection start jumps to may be related to some previous selection, but I can't figure out exactly how it decides where to begin. The man pages don't seem to cover this at all either.

Anyone else encounter this, or know how to get around it?

Keith

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Keith
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