From 322df43e4d5dcd071aa348295c6c1b6bac11b4a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Tatham Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:30:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Manfred Schwarb also mentions that Alt+drag is captured by at least one well known window manager (KDE's); document that Shift+Alt+drag is worth trying as a workaround. [originally from svn r8059] --- doc/using.but | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index 85e23431..228500ba 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -55,10 +55,14 @@ PuTTY will \I{selecting lines}select a whole line or sequence of lines. If you want to select a \I{rectangular selection}rectangular region instead of selecting to the end of each line, you can do this by -holding down Alt when you make your selection. (You can also +holding down Alt when you make your selection. You can also configure rectangular selection to be the default, and then holding -down Alt gives the normal behaviour instead. See -\k{config-rectselect} for details.) +down Alt gives the normal behaviour instead: see +\k{config-rectselect} for details. + +(In some Unix environments, Alt+drag is intercepted by the window +manager. Shift+Alt+drag should work for rectangular selection as +well, so you could try that instead.) If you have a \i{middle mouse button}, then you can use it to \I{adjusting a selection}adjust an existing selection if you