Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake

Posted by stefanos82 on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:09PM
from the self-post dept.

Did you know that when you hold Ctrl and left-mouse key pressed, you get a drop down menu?!

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by cylinder714 on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:29PM (#35014608)

Yep! Works for the middle and right mouse buttons, too.

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by booboofixer on Friday March 03, 2023 @03:58PM (#35014896)

I used it recently to change the font size to ‘Unreadable’ and it indeed was, unreadable. Wonder why that options exists.

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by nousermane on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:09PM (#35015021)

To search very long texts by the "text shape". Same idea as some popular editors show on the right, next to the scrollbar:

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by randrus on Saturday March 04, 2023 @09:48AM (#35021093)

I used to monitor multiple long running tests that way with “& banner done”

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by koodarimpi on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:46PM (#35023853)

I guess developers just had some fun :D

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by suprjami on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:01PM (#35015647)

Yes.

Once I needed to use xterm for something for the first time, so I made a very daring and bold move...

I read the manual.

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by compressedgas on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:23PM (#35015855)

The menus in Smalltalk systems are accessed in the same manner.

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Re:Today I discovered an xterm feature by mistake by zzo38computer on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:25PM (#35015872)

Yes, I used that feature. You can also display different menus by Ctrl with the other mouse buttons.

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