From: simon Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:30:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Manfred Schwarb also mentions that Alt+drag is captured by at least X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/commitdiff_plain/ab08725ee6e88014616909b0f875ee6742bfe8a3?hp=de4fb57376f7c9f989c8978505301c042c74fe30 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. git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty@8059 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e --- 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