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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help with double-click recognition.
Message-ID: <8910161316.AA00255@kanga.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 89 13:16:20 GMT
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    When you triple click in xterm, what really happens is you execute the
    single click action after the first click, the double click action after
    the second click, and the triple click action after the third.

Unfortunately, it's even worse than that!  The same action (select-start) is
executed every time, but xterm keeps track of the timestamp of the last event
so that it can decide what to do on the fly.  This is why there are currently
so many grody parameters for controlling the line selection instead of simply
having additional actions.

							Jim