#119 selecting already-highlighted text does not un-highlight it

[Jim]

This applies to 0.5.2 (patched) and the version I d/l'ed via svn an hour ago.

Unlike rxvt, xterm and various other terminal emulators, mrxvt does not un-highlight highlighted text when you select it.

For example, use less to look at a text file and search for some text. If you have less configured to highlight the matching string(s), then if you try to select this text, it won't un-highlight. This lack of visual feedback is a Bad Thing.

Thanks.

Jim

[Jehan]

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Hello,

with last version of mrxvt, do you still see such behaviour? It seems to be fixed, because I personnaly cannot reproduce it (at least from what I understood in your issue).

For my own, if the child program (for instance "less" as suggested) highlights some text (for instance I search for a string), and if I select with the mouse, it doesn't un-highlight it, that's true, but it highlights it in another color. So I guess this is enough, is it? There is some visual feedback here.
Or would you want that when you "double-highlight" a text (mouse over child highlight), it has another third color?

[Jim]

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Yes, I still see such behaviour.
And for me, if I search for a string using less, when I select that text, it does not highlight it in another colour. What happens for you would be enough, I suppose, but since it isn't happening for me with 0.5.4, ...

Any sort of visual feedback would be nice, I suggested the behaviour of rxvt because it is familiar, but it is just one possibility.

Cheers.