On 08.19.2022 12:14, Phil Young wrote:
Just tested, c3270 doesn't let you select/copy text in the terminal.
c3270 enables "mouse reporting" in the terminal so you can use the mouse
to click around to set the cursor position, trigger the menus, etc.
Therefore, it's taking over the standard mouse behavior from your
terminal emulator, which is why it seems like you can't select text to
copy and paste.
So you need to know how your terminal emulator works.
In my case, using xterm, if I hold down the shift key, mouse events are
handled by xterm instead of being passed through to c3270. Thus, if I
hold down shift, I can highlight text in the terminal window and copy
(in my case, Ctrl-Shift-C to copy selected text from xterm).
I also know in MacOS, when using Terminal.app, you can toggle mouse
reporting with Command-R. So you can toggle mouse reporting off,
highlight and copy text as you please, then toggle mouse reporting back
on again if you want to use your mouse with your 3270 session.
-Matthew
