Ask YC: Dragging text from OSX terminal windows?

About 6 months ago I got a Macbook Air. It's an improvement over my old Powerbook in most respects, but not one: dragging text from terminal windows.

In older versions of OSX, it was very easy to highlight text in a terminal window and then click on it and drag it into another window. In more recent versions this doesn't work so well: the sw seems to have been tweaked to err on the side of interpreting the second click as changing the highlighted area, unless you pause and hold the cursor absolutely still for a bit before clicking. I usually work by dragging changed code into a repl, so this makes it much harder for me to program.

Does anyone know of any settings I can change in OSX to undo this "improvement?"