linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] vt: set mouse selection word-chars to gpm's default

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Message-Id: <20170327122114.3970-1-kilobyte@angband.pl>
Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:21:13 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] vt: set mouse selection word-chars to gpm's default

Since forever, gpm was this code's only user, and it overrides the table on
start so the default was never seen -- until Bill Allombert's "consolation"
came in.  The in-kernel set is "A-Za-z0-9_" which fails to catch typical
file names, etc.  Let's change this to gpm's conservative default, ie
"-A-Za-z0-9_./"; most terminals include more, for example xfce4-terminal has
"-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&#:_=+@~".

There's some discussion at https://bugs.debian.org/846587

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
---
v2: no changes in this patch, resent as part of the set.

 drivers/tty/vt/selection.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
index 36e1b8c7680f..2252e11d8347 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ void clear_selection(void)
  */
 static u32 inwordLut[8]={
   0x00000000, /* control chars     */
-  0x03FF0000, /* digits            */
+  0x03FFE000, /* digits and "-./"  */
   0x87FFFFFE, /* uppercase and '_' */
   0x07FFFFFE, /* lowercase         */
   0x00000000,
-- 
2.11.0