[indiana-discuss] xterm takes a long time to start

Rob Clark rob1weld at aol.com
Thu Nov 27 10:06:48 PST 2008


> Mark Fenwick wrote:
> The annoyance is that gnome-terminal insists on
> underlining text that it thinks is a URL or an e-mail
> address and makes selecting text for cut and paste
> really awkward, I don't know if its possible to turn
> this off ?
> 
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> I haven't found a way to do so; that would be nice as
> I never want that 
> behaviour.
> 
Me too.


Workaround:

If you _only_ want the text that is underlined then right-click and copy it.

If you want _more_ than the underlined text then start your selection (left-
click) off-of the underlined text, move the mouse to include the text that 
is underlined, then right-click and copy it.

Rob
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