useful selection method has vanished.
Submitted by Telsa Gwynne
Assigned to Havoc Pennington
Description
This is a matter of debate, but I feel very strongly about this issue.
There are multiple ways of selecting text in xterm and there were in gnome-terminal for Gnome 1.x. Most people use left-click and dragging. I use left-click, right-click. If you haven't met this, read http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/BitsAndPieces/googlizer.html#selection
This easier method has vanished from gnome-terminal in Gnome 2. Or at least it has in the version shipped on RH (null) which uses vte. I am told it's not there in zvt versions either (can't check).
I am unhappy about this. I don't know whether it's actually a standard thing, but it's in xterm, and gnome-terminal describes itself as an xterm emulator. And with a pointing device such as a stylus, it's much easier to use this second method.
The only advantage I can see for this is that users will no longer get confused when they (erroneously) right-click for the context menu. It was always supposed to be control-right-click, but people tended not to know this. So this is hardly an advantage for me, but I can see it being so for some people. But gnome-terminal has always had different keybindings and keybindings switched off. (Just think of ^S and ^Q... :))
Version: 2.0.x
Resolution: RESOLVED NOTABUG