Re: [PATCH] checkout: add a space between the commit and "..."

[Brandon Casey <drafnel@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> wrote:
> Am 9/29/2010 0:40, schrieb Brandon Casey:
>> On 09/28/2010 05:23 PM, Aaron Plattner wrote:
>>> Switching to a detached head prints something like
>>>
>>>   HEAD is now at 9d14017... dir.c: squelch false uninitialized memory warning
>>>
>>> These dots get selected when you double-click on the abbreviated
>>> commit hash, which makes it annoying to copy and paste.
>>
>> This must be another gnome-terminal/konsole "innovation".
>>
>> xterm still does the "right thing"(tm) _and_ it doesn't eat my
>> alt keystrokes like alt-b to move the cursor back a word. /rant
>
> You must be running an xterm with settings from the stone ages. I had the
> impression that modern installations have the selection configured such
> that a file path can be selected with a mere double-click,

Fedora 11 (and hopefully later versions), default settings.

   $ appres XTerm | grep charClass; echo nada
   nada

It's probably an ubuntu thing.

> without dragging.

Just right-click to extend the selection.  It's a lot easier than reducing an
over-aggressive selection (read: impossible).  Try using right-click to
adjust a double-click selection with and without the charClass setting
that you mention below.

> For this, the dot must be in the same class as letters and
> digits. Just for reference (I don't know how to read this):
>
> $ appres XTerm | grep charClass
> *charClass:     33:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,126:48,95:48

Thanks, now I know what to disable when I use ubuntu.

   $ echo charClass | xrdb -remove
   # Then start a new xterm

-Brandon