linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] vt: mouse selection word boundaries

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:35:17 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] vt: mouse selection word boundaries

Hi!
Here's a couple of really low priority fixes to how "word chars" for mouse
selection are determined.

Patch 1 (adds "-./") is an epitome of "apply if bored": for two decades,
only gpm used this, and it always ignored the defaults.  Bill Allombert made
a second implementation, "consolation", and we wasted a bit of time figuring
out why mouse selection is so limited.  As consolation now overrides the
defaults too, this patch will be helpful only for whoever makes a third user
of this code...

Patch 2, besides making a handful of non-ASCII symbols work the same as
everything else, also stops people from mysteriously losing that 'ü' after
naive gpm -l "-A-Za-z0-9_./".

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