Re: [LINUX5250] Mouse handling

[Alex Mauer <amauer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marek Bajon wrote:

> REMARKS and TODOS  
>  
> 1. Mouse events should be received via ncurses functions, it would allow
> not only xterm but also gpm as mouse event provider (at least docs say
> so :) )
>  
> 2. Using copybuffer in a file does not allow copying and pasting to /
> from other applications, but there is no clipboard notion in curses (or
> I don't know about it), and tn5250 is not an X-window app, so using X
> clipboard seams not a good idea - what if we run it in text mode?
>  
I know gpm keeps its own clipboard...don't know how that interacts with 
ncurses, nor X...but for me, the copy/paste is not so important as 
cursor postioning.

> 6. I used Ctrl-Insert and Shift-PgDn for COPY_TEXT and PASTE_TEXT keys
> because that's Client Access' default setting. If you have a better idea
> feel free to change it. I will set it for my users to Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V
> anyway.
How about Shift-Insert for PASTE_TEXT?  That is the standard Wordstar 
(also used in many, many, many other apps) keymapping...CAE seems to 
have adapted this (presumably Shift-Insert does otherwise there...)

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