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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Mouse on VAXstation 2000 running DECwindows
Message-ID: <4839@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 90 06:23:09 GMT
References: <16959@oregon.uoregon.edu> <2967@bacchus.dec.com>
Reply-To: dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
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Organization: Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <2967@bacchus.dec.com> klee@decwrl.dec.com writes:
>In article <16959@oregon.uoregon.edu>, SMOORE@oregon.uoregon.edu
>(Spencer Moore) writes:

>> Is there any way to change the manner in which my VAXstation 2000 running
>> DECwindows grabs text with the mouse?  Currently the mouse grabs full lines
>> of text.  Is there any way to grab a rectangle of text (ala Macintosh or
>> VWSwindows)? 

>It is possible to write a text editor or terminal emulator with this
>feature.  As far as I know, though, none of the out-of-the-box
>DECwindows applications have it.

We have a locally developed EDT emulation in TPU which allows rectangle
cut and paste as described above. I don't know whether it can be modified
to work via the mouse or not.

It can be FTP'd from ymir.claremont.edu from the directory
[anonymous.public.editors.eve_edt]

-dh
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