Fixing the selection handling to allow one char selection.

Thanks Alexander Sedov <alex0player@gmail.com> for suggesting the fix!

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index c0a4780..8d27c94 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -785,11 +785,8 @@ bpress(XEvent *e) {
                 sel.ey = sel.by = y2row(e->xbutton.y);
 
                 /*
-                 * Snap handling.
-                 * If user clicks are fasst enough (e.g. below timeouts),
-                 * we ignore if his hand slipped left or down and accidentally
-                 * selected more; we are just snapping to whatever we're
-                 * snapping.
+                 * If the user clicks below predefined timeouts specific
+                 * snapping behaviour is exposed.
                  */
                 if(TIMEDIFF(now, sel.tclick2) <= tripleclicktimeout) {
                         sel.snap = SNAP_LINE;
@@ -809,7 +806,8 @@ bpress(XEvent *e) {
                  * Draw selection, unless it's regular and we don't want to
                  * make clicks visible
                  */
-                if (sel.snap != 0) {
+                if(sel.snap != 0) {
+                        sel.mode++;
                         tsetdirt(sel.b.y, sel.e.y);
                         draw();
                 }
@@ -987,14 +985,14 @@ brelease(XEvent *e) {
         if(e->xbutton.button == Button2) {
                 selpaste(NULL);
         } else if(e->xbutton.button == Button1) {
-                sel.mode = 0;
-                getbuttoninfo(e);
-                term.dirty[sel.ey] = 1;
-                if(sel.bx == sel.ex && sel.by == sel.ey) {
+                if(sel.mode < 2) {
                         sel.bx = -1;
                 } else {
+                        getbuttoninfo(e);
                         selcopy();
                 }
+                sel.mode = 0;
+                term.dirty[sel.ey] = 1;
         }
 }
 
@@ -1010,6 +1008,7 @@ bmotion(XEvent *e) {
         if(!sel.mode)
                 return;
 
+        sel.mode++;
         oldey = sel.ey;
         oldex = sel.ex;
         oldsby = sel.b.y;