Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: Can't paste text or type dead keys when mouse is out of the window

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:26:06AM +0200, Paul Maier wrote:
> 
> 
> > >>> The problem here is, when running vi in an xterm and the mouse slowly (unnoticed)
> > >>> moves over the scrollbar or out of the xterm, and you want to jump to mark "a,
> > >>> you need to enter `a, that is in keystrokes
> > >>
> > >
> > >> I'll experiment to see if I can reproduce this effect with my environment.
> > >> thanks for the detailed explanation.
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Thomas,
> > >
> > > yes, I'm talking about dead keys = compose sequences.
> > >
> > > Was it possible to you to reproduce it in your environment? Typing dead key ` apostrophe
> > > then press letter "a" while the mouse pointer is over the scrollbar area of an xterm?
> > 
> > yes - I can reproduce it.  Actually once I was made aware of the issue,
> > I could see in my mind where the problem might lie.  But I just verified
> > it since you reminded me (on one of my Linux machines).
> > 
> > My idea about the problem is that since xterm has setup translations
> > (which capture the input) on more than one widget (without appearing to
> > address this special case), that it might be that there's a better point
> > in the widget to attach the translations to.
> > 
> > This was discussed a little late in the #277 cycle to want to hold that
> > up, so I had in mind to spend some time investigating a solution for it
> > during #278.
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> I would like to report, that above problem still exists.
> I tested against xterm-281.

yes (I spent some time investigating this, but did not yet find a solution)

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