[Aptitude-devel] Bug#692096: X selection support (e.g. for Homepage URL)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo


Hello Harald,

2012-11-02 04:56 Harald Dunkel:
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>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.6.8.1-2
>Severity: wishlist
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>Running aptitude in an xterm I'd love to copy the Homepage
>URL into the Xselection buffer to make it available to other
>XWindow applications (e.g. Firefox, to paste it into an EMail,
>etc.).
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>Currently I have to either manually type in the URL, leave
>aptitude with ^C to make selecting text work, or to avoid
>aptitude completely. The description, maintainer EMail
>address and other text cannot be selected by the left button,
>either. Surely this could be improved.

So is the solution Shift + Mouse Select satisfactory?

I am marking this as +moreinfo in the meantime.

And frankly I'd leave the bug open in the case that it's useful for
other people who find the same problem (maybe they want to submit a bug
report and see the solution), but I don't think that this is going to be
implemented in other way at least in the near future.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>