Re: Right click in Motif GVim.

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Tinou wrote:
> Hello,
> On two regularly updated ArchLinux, I've been using Motif GVim for quite
> some time now and can remember the day (though not exactly when) when right
> click did something useful (extending the selection or popuping up a menu or
> both).
> But since some time, in the subversion version (updated yesterday), right
> click seems to do nothing, regardless of 'mousemodel' and blocks the mouse
> cursor in gvim's window. All the window manager's keyboard shortcuts no
> longer works, leaving me the only option to switch to console and kill that
> gvim.
> I've checked that 'mouse' is set to 'a' and 'mousemodel' to 'extend', tried
> launching with "-U NONE -u NONE" and two different window manager (dwm and
> icewm)...
> Is this a bug or can there be something wrong with the Makefile I edited ?
> The only things I do to this file is activating MOTIF GUI, some interpreters
> such as python and ruby and setting the features to the huge preset.
> Regards,

Right click properly extends a visual selection for me, with vim
7.2.284 and the Motif GUI.

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Nov 8 2009 22:04:21)
Included patches: 1-284
Compiled by jamessan@debian.org
Huge version with X11-Motif GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments
+cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs -dnd -ebcdic
+emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path
+float +folding -footer +fork() +gettext -hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand
+jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap
+menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm
-mouse_jsbterm +mouse_netterm -mouse_sysmouse +mouse_xterm +multi_byte
+multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg -osfiletype +path_extra +perl +postscript
+printer +profile +python +quickfix +reltime +rightleft +ruby +scrollbind
+signs +smartindent -sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary
+tag_old_static -tag_any_white +tcl +terminfo +termresponse +textobjects +title
+toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo
+vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup +X11 +xfontset +xim
+xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MOTIF
-Wall -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fstack-protector
-I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
-I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE -I/usr/include/python2.5 -pthread
-I/usr/include/tcl8.4 -D_REENTRANT=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE=1
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1 -I/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i486-linux
Linking: gcc -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-dynamic -Wl,-E
-Wl,--as-needed -o vim -lXext -lXm -lncurses -lselinux -lacl -lgpm
-Wl,-E -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE
-lperl -L/usr/lib/python2.5/config -lpython2.5 -lutil -Xlinker
-export-dynamic -Wl,-O1 -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -L/usr/lib -ltcl8.4
-lieee -lruby1.8 -lrt -lm

~Matt