Cygwin/Xterm scroll while selecting text

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 7 May 2006, Doug Bohl wrote:

> Yeah, Thomas is right.  I personally don't like the scrollbars, I just
> use the scrollwheel on my mouse to scroll up and down text in xterm. So my 
> method for selecting a large amount of text is:
>
> - scroll to location of beginning text
> - right click once on exactly where i want to begin selection
> - scroll down with scrollwheel until end text is reached
> - right click again exactly where i want to end selection
>
> Of course, in conjunction with right-clicking, you could alternatively
> use the scrollbar ;-)

yes.  It depends on your wheel mouse.  I've used a wheel mouse which 
scrolls smoothly (but it's not the one at hand this moment - that one 
bounces a lot, sending spurious events).  The scrollbars tend to be more 
reliable, though not necessarily as easy to use (since they require an 
extra step).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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