Highlighting text with keyboard for copying

[Raybuntu]

Terminator needs a Keyshortcut for highlighting text with the keyboard. I thought about something like the "caret browsing" feature of mozilla firefox. When you press F7 you can move in the terminal window with the arrow keys and highlighting text with Shift+<arrow key>.

Example:

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ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$ ls
air Bilder Desktop Downloads gal_080422_kuchen.flv lircmd.conf Videos
anna Daten Dokumente Entwiklung irexec.sh~ Musik webcm~
ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$ cd
ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$ cd Downloads
ray@raybuntu-desktop:~/Downloads$ cd /etc
ray@raybuntu-desktop:/etc$ cd
ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$
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In this Situation I can only copy the text:"irexec.sh~" in the ls output, by highlighting it with the mouse!

[Raybuntu (raybuntu)]

Hi,

at least for me it's no longer a wish. I've made myself some zsh widgets that emulate the vi-visual mode in the cmd line. If anyone is interested http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~raybuntu/+junk/ZSH_stuff/annotate/head:/zle_vi_visual.zsh
(very quick and dirty ;D). So I think this feature should be implemented by the shell not the terminal.

regards
Ray

[Kai Grossjohann (kai-emptydomain)]

To be honest, for me, that doesn't cut it. In the given example, it doesn't capture the output of ls. IIUC.

Kai

On 5 Jul 2010, at 14:07, Raybuntu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> at least for me it's no longer a wish. I've made myself some zsh widgets that emulate the vi-visual mode in the cmd line. If anyone is interested http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~raybuntu/+junk/ZSH_stuff/annotate/head:/zle_vi_visual.zsh
> (very quick and dirty ;D). So I think this feature should be implemented by the shell not the terminal.
>
>
> regards
> Ray
>
> --
> Wishlist: Highlighting text with keyboard for copying
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313031
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> Status in Terminator: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Terminator needs a Keyshortcut for highlighting text with the keyboard. I thought about something like the "caret browsing" feature of mozilla firefox. When you press F7 you can move in the terminal window with the arrow keys and highlighting text with Shift+<arrow key>.
>
> Example:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$ ls
> air Bilder Desktop Downloads gal_080422_kuchen.flv lircmd.conf Videos
> anna Daten Dokumente Entwiklung irexec.sh~ Musik webcm~
> ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$ cd
> ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$ cd Downloads
> ray@raybuntu-desktop:~/Downloads$ cd /etc
> ray@raybuntu-desktop:/etc$ cd
> ray@raybuntu-desktop:~$
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In this Situation I can only copy the text:"irexec.sh~" in the ls output, by highlighting it with the mouse!
>
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[Raybuntu (raybuntu)]

Yeah you are right this doesn't work with the scrollback buffer. But you can use GNU Screen for this:

http://www.samsarin.com/blog/2007/03/11/gnu-screen-working-with-the-scrollback-buffer/

Ray

[Zohar Jackson (jakobovski)]

I am happy to implement this if someone could just give me a quick walk through of the codebase