From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 6 8:47:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B018E37B41F for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16ieZf-000J5k-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:47:31 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 6729E13040 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:47:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 08D5622596; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:47:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 17:47:26 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mouse highlighting in latest stable Message-ID: <20020306164726.GA4962@raggedclown.net> References: <20020304222236.GB7620_raggedclown.net@ns.sol.net> <200203061140.g26BeFq61761@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200203061140.g26BeFq61761@sheol.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 05:40:15AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > In article <20020304222236.GB7620_raggedclown.net@ns.sol.net>, > csfbsd@raggedclown.net writes: > > Hello, > > I have a USB mouse. > > I keep pretty up to date with stable. > > Since the last update, say 3 days ago I have noticed something > > odd. When I highlight some text with the mouse, and then paste it, the > > area of the screen where I highlighted the text remains highlighted even > > when the screen changes (such as when moving through messages in mutt). > > Typeing ctrl/L in mutt clears it, but it is starting to irritate me :) > > > > Any clues ? > > Conformance with the console cursor? :-) > > Seriously, I don't know, 4.5-REL doesn't do this in X, but this has been > true of the console cursor since [at least] 4.2-REL, and I find it rather > irritating, too. > I meant the console cursor. Oh, well I have only just started noticing it. I only ever use Mutt to read mail, so I am sure I would have noticed it before. Maybe I need an optician ? In fact fiddling with the mouse now as I write this, it definitely seems to have changed it's highlighting behaviour. Mmm, a mystery. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message