[Python-Dev] Cut'n'paste

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Mon, 9 Sep 2002 19:07:13 -0400


On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Barry Scott wrote:
>Aahz:
>>
>> xterm does a nifty job usually of figuring out what to highlight when I
>> double-click on a word.  It fails with mailto: because normally when I
>> cut'n'paste an address, I *don't* want to include the "mailto:" portion.
> 
> You can configure xterm to treat : as punctuation and not a word
> char. See man xterm.

Then it would fail with regular URLs.  You can't win.  ;-)
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