QXTerm:Quoting Xterm

I often find myself copying text with the right mouse button while i'm in X and pasting it into my mail message with the using the middle mouse button. This also comes in handy while quoting walls. My idea to to make qxterm (quoting xterm), which automatically preceeds each pasted line with ">" when the shift key is pressed with the middle mouse button.

QXTerm Manpage

NAME qxterm \- terminal emulator for X with qool kwoting qapabilities.

SYNOPSIS

qxterm [-toolkitoption ...] [-option ...]

DESCRIPTION

The qxterm program is a hacked version of colour-xterm, which itself is based on xterm(1). It proves better pasting capabilities than xterm (1).

OPTIONS

The qxterm terminal emulator accepts all of the xterm(1) command line options as well as the the following:

-q string
This option specifies the string used to quote pasted lines. Defaults to "> ".

RESOURCES

This program understands all of the xterm(1) resource names and classes as well as:

quoteString (class QuoteString)
Similar to -q.

POINTER USAGE

Once the VT102 window is created, qxterm allows you to select text and copy it within the same or other windows. The selection funcdtions are invoked just as they are with xterm, except for the quoting paste function. QXTerm provides the ability to paste a selection and have every line be preceeded by a quote string. This is useful in editing mail and ot her uses that involve quoting other sources. The quoting paste is invoked with shift-button2 by default, but can be changed through the resource database; see ACTIONS below.

ACTIONS

QXTerm has all the actions of the traditional xterm, with the addtion of the following:

insert-quoted-selection(sourcename [, ...])
This action inserts the string found in the selection or cutbuffer indicated by sourcename and preceeds each line of it with the quote stirng.

SEE ALSO

resize(1), X(1), pty(4), tty(4), xterm(1), Xterm Control Sequences

BUGS

NONE! This might be PHILWARE!

COPYRIGHT

See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHORS

The quoteString stuff by Ali Rahimi (ali@csua.berkeley.edu).

QXTerm is a hacked version of color-xterm. The authors were:

Far too many people, including:

Loretta Guarino Reid (DEC-UEG-WSL), Joel McCormack (DEC-UEG-WSL), Terry Weissman (DEC-UEG-WSL), Edward Moy (Berkeley), Ralph R. Swick (MIT-Athena), Mark Vandevoorde (MIT-Athena), Bob McNamara (DEC-MAD), Jim Gettys (MIT-Athena), Bob Scheifler (MIT X Consortium), Doug Mink (SAO), Steve Pitschke (Stellar), Ron Newman (MIT-Athena), Jim Fulton (MIT X Consortium), Dave Serisky (HP)