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From: PJS@GROUCH.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XTERM Translation Tables
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Date: 7 Sep 89 19:24:53 GMT
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Just observed what seems to this writer to be unsociable behavior in
XTerm and wanted to check out my analysis.  I noticed that on pressing
Control + button 2 down, a menu popped up, as desired.  However, on
releasing button 2, the cut buffer was pasted in the window, which appears
to make little sense if I want to pop up the menu without trashing my
window.  I looked in the FM and found under "KEY/BUTTON BINDINGS" the lines

	Ctrl	~Meta	<Btn2Down>:	mode-menu()\n\
and
		~Meta	<Btn2Up>:	insert-selection(PRIMARY,CUT_BUFFER0)\n\
which I interpret to mean, "If you have Control but not Meta pressed and
you push button 2 down, pop up the appropriate menu," and "whether or not
you have Control down, as long as you don't have Meta down, paste the cut
buffer on button 2 release".

(1)  Have I correctly interpreted these lines?
(2)  Is this a bug?  I have not seen it mentioned here.  Obviously I can
     change the translation table myself but why was this bizarre choice
     made in the first place?
(3)  Fixed in R4...?

Peter Scott (pjs@grouch.jpl.nasa.gov)