svn commit: r271023 - stable/10/sys/dev/vt

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 01:48:59AM +0300, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 16:34:34 +0000
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > For quite a while (since I started using vt(4)) I'm observing a rather
> > annoying thing: sometimes small area of screen would get selected like if
> > pressed mouse button or something.  If I do a long build on the console,
> > periodically, white rectangle (selected area) will suddenly pop up and
> > scroll away.  Is this a known thing?  It can be very annoying for text
> > editing on the console, as these sporadic "selects" are overwriting my
> > selection buffer contents with whatever was on the screen at that time
> > when they suddenly appear.  (Rat itself it motionless while it happens.)
> 
> Yeah, it is known. It is due different logic than in syscons(4). vt(4) save
> not skected text, but position inside history buffer.
> Return to old (well known syscons(4)) behaviour is in TODO.

Noted.  It would be nice if vt(4) also regained syscons(4) feature of buffer
pasting with Shift-Ins (right now I have to press the middle mouse button to
do it).

If you could also allow scrolling with Shift-PgUp/PgDn (akin to xterm), not
just via pressing ScrollLock first, it would make vt(4) even more awesome.

./danfe