Provide an option to search selected text on the Internet

Bug #1901729 reported by Ponnuvel Palaniyappan
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Ubuntu Terminal App
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Bug Description

Often text is copied from the terminal and searched on the internet. E.g. compilation errors, errors from logs/applications, and so on.

It'd be useful if the terminal provided an option to search the internet directly - just like how browsers provide an option when selecting text: 'Search Google for "SELECTED TEXT"'.

Currently, terminal provides:
 - Copy
 - Copy as HTML
 etc

when right-clicking (after selecting text). I think it'd be very useful if there's an additional option to search the internet (perhaps the search engine could be set in 'Preferences' if some other search isn't preferred).

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Ponnuvel Palaniyappan (pponnuvel) wrote :

I don't have access to edit the 'importance' - this would be a 'Wishlist'.

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