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From: z8my@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac mouse in VersaTerm vs RR10.3
Message-ID: <18995@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 12 Jul 89 03:33:22 GMT
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Reply-To: z8my@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Samuel Paik)
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In article <2637@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes:
>Can anyone tell me about the mouse in VersaTerm?  Can you select text?
>Can you use the mouse for coursor moves?  Does the terminal somehow
>'forget' that there is a mouse attached like in RR?

The mouse support is fairly good in VersaTerm.  You can select text, and
if stuff comes in, it doesn't get lost, and the selected text remains
selected.  It also has a "smart mouse" feature, where you click on a point
(with the option key held down--may be configurable, don't remember) and
VersaTerm generates a sequence of characters to move the cursor to that
location.  This works with anything that has (a) arrow keys (b) vi style
bindings, (c) EMACS style bindings.

>I cannot stand RR anymore.  The VT100 emulation sucks.  It seems to
>forget where the mouse os all the time, and half the tie the mouse
>doesn't work IN THE SAME EMACS SESSION!

And VersaTerm has solid VT100 emultaion...

>
>sigh...
>
>
>nrg
>
>-- 
>York University          |"_Wanting_ to think is one thing;
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Samuel Paik			d65y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
surviving college student--anyone looking for a computer engineer/programmer
			   in two years?