PuTTY wish selection-pause

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summary: Terminal output to pause while mouse selection in progress
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.
priority: low: We aren't sure whether to fix this or not.
absent-in: 0.52 0.53 0.53b
present-in: 0.54

When selecting with the mouse, it might make sense for further incoming data to be buffered until the user lets go, so that they aren't trying to work with a moving target. This might also be nice when scrolling with the scrollbar.

We used to do this, but we broke it in 0.54.

Patch (needs Unix fettling): 004801c41291$340fb8e0$024d460a@neptune

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2004-11-16 15:27:00 +0000)