gnome terminal should highlight user entered text for easy parsing

[njh]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

It's often hard to find an entered command in the text of a terminal. A simple solution to this would be to annotate the text entered by a user (or pasted perhaps) with a colour, or underline, or similar.

njh@flobber:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
njh@flobber:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal:
  Installed: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.
 We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

[Tim Cole (tcole)]

This seems clear-cut enough; the request is effectively for VteTerminal to show echoed input in a different style from text written to the ptty. This would require some changes to VteTerminal in libvte, and some changes to gnome-terminal to add corresponding preferences.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

someone interested on the change should send this to bugzilla.gnome.org .

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for vte (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

gnome-terminal task has been 'Incomplete' since 2009 so closing.