conf/71254: ncurses: xterm vs. cons* termtypes or sc(4)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Rong-En Fan wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:20:33PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>>> Synopsis: ncurses: xterm vs. cons* termtypes or sc(4)
...
>> Triple-click on a long (one wrapping to the next line) line. Notice,
>> that only part of the line gets highlighted by xterm. Opening the same
>> file with less/more has the same effect. Cat-ing, however, does not --
>> presumably, because cat does not use [n]curses.
>
> I think this was explained to you by ncurses author in a private
> conversion? From his explanation, if I understand correctly, it's
> the correct (or expected) behavior.

yes - I recall the conversation (I was pointing out that it is the 
expected behavior).

>
> To be clear, I put ncurses author into CC'ed. The conversion  I
> mentioned is
>
> Subject: Re: copy/paste long line in ncurses based program
> Message-ID: <20070310112419.G3280 at mail101.his.com>
>
> Regards,
> Rong-En Fan
>

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