manage X selection in xterm

[ethercrow]

Original author: [email protected] (September 10, 2008 11:03:54)

We would like a "paste" operation to be interpreted as such, and not a
bunch of keystrokes.

This is apparently possible by capturing the mouse events:

putStr $ csi ++ "?1000h"

but I can't seem to be able to read or write to the clipboard, depite
following the instructions in this document (p. 17)

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.pdf

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues/detail?id=181

[ethercrow]

From [email protected] on September 10, 2008 13:47:18
I don't know how to fixing this issue...

However in Vim there is a 'paste mode' (a flag to the insert mode), that disable the
specific interpretation of keystrokes.

This is turned on via :set paste, turned off via :set nopaste, and toggled via :set
invpaste.

[ethercrow]

From [email protected] on September 11, 2008 18:14:41
Turns out that the OSC 52 ; ... works only if xterm is compiled with --enable-paste64

Why is this never enabled? :(

[ethercrow]

From [email protected] on September 11, 2008 19:44:40
I see that this is also completely ignored by gnome-terminal.
Check out:
-> vte package (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/vte/0.17/)
-> file caps.c
-> {OSC "50;%s" BEL, "change-font-name", 0},

after this one we should find OSC 52, but nothing. Note also the very informative
comment at the top:

/* From some really old XTerm docs we had at the office, and an updated

• version at Moy, Gildea, and Dickey. */

Back to xterm:
bracketed mode paste seems enabled by --enable-readline-mouse; but it seems to have
other strange effects on the code.