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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  xterm behaviour
Message-ID: <9010060409.AA04946@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 6 Oct 90 04:09:34 GMT
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> My only complaints about X are that wipe in xterm doesn't know about
> wrap-around (really annoying when you type long command lines, since
> that's when you will probably need to wipe) and that word-mode wipe
> will let you high-light trailing blanks, but it won't stuff them.

> Are there any solutions to these problems?

"wipe" is not a feature of xterm per se; the tty driver simply prints
backspaces and spaces to erase things.  The problem is that xterm by
default has forward wrap enabled and backward wrap disabled.  IMO this
is a bug (I maintain that they should either both wrap or neither
wrap).  It is possible to turn on backward wrap or turn off forward
wrap.  There is a menu available on control-mousebutton2 which allows
this; I understand it can also be done with resources and/or
command-line options but I don't know how.  (I basically never use
xterm.)

It's not clear what your second problem is, and as it seems to involve
cut-and-paste in xterm, I probably couldn't help with it in any case.

					der Mouse

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