iterm-discuss

[Iterm-discuss] copy & paste behaviour?

[John H. <ha...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am a big fan of iTerm and have been using it since it came out.
But the newer versions have this feature I just don't understand.

If you are trying to select text in a terminal window, you sometimes
get the cursor turning in to the big green + sign  (what does that mean?)
and when it appears you have no choice but to paste whatever is in the
buffer randomly where you clicked. it is very annoying, as all I wanted
to do was copy the selection, the good old fashioned way.

Do you understand what I mean?
Am I using it wrong? What does this thing do, and can I disable it, as I
find it quite annoying when editing code, and the blah - paste of big
unrelated
text in middle of code.

Any ideas?

-- 

John

Re: [Iterm-discuss] copy & paste behaviour?

[David N. <dn...@ma...>]

On Oct 20, 2006, at 4:38 PM, John Hannfield wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a big fan of iTerm and have been using it since it came out.
> But the newer versions have this feature I just don't understand.
>
> If you are trying to select text in a terminal window, you sometimes
> get the cursor turning in to the big green + sign  (what does that  
> mean?)

This is actually OS X behavior. If you highlight something, then hold  
down the mouse button on it for a moment, it turns into a sticky  
copy. You can duplicate this is virtually any OS X program, including  
Terminal.app.

If you accidentally grab some text, you can hit the ESC key to cancel  
the operation.

Hope this answers your question.

-David

Re: [Iterm-discuss] copy & paste behaviour?

[John H. <ha...@gm...>]

Thanks David,
That does the trick! Sill MacOSX!

John