When selection a multi-line URI in a terminal window I've noticed two behaviors. Some will ?ignore? the extra lines and only select to the end of the first line. Others will select the entire URI, typically to an ending ">". Obviously I would prefer the latter.
Is this behavior terminal specific, i.e. gnome-terminal vs mate-terminal vs xterm. Or is it a configuration parameter that I've not found?
Jon
On 25Jan2019 18:14, Jon LaBadie jonfu@jgcomp.com wrote:
When selection a multi-line URI in a terminal window I've noticed two behaviors. Some will ?ignore? the extra lines and only select to the end of the first line. Others will select the entire URI, typically to an ending ">". Obviously I would prefer the latter.
Is this behavior terminal specific, i.e. gnome-terminal vs mate-terminal vs xterm. Or is it a configuration parameter that I've not found?
Well, selection is definitely per terminal emulator. That said, each terminal may indeed have configuration to tune it. To take a non-X11 example, my iterm3 config has a bunch of options around selection, including things like "double click performs smart selection" and "triple click selects entire wrapped lines" and "trim whitespace when copying to pasteboard".
But it can also very a bit with the source of the text. Text just echoed to the terminal (i.e. a very long URL) will hit the edge of the terminal and wrap onto the next line, and thus the leading lines do not have an "end" indication: if you widen the terminal the URL will flow back onto the earlier wider lines. Versus doing a few echoes of shorter strings: they end in a newline and the terminal knows the next line is distinct.
In a curses app, such as mutt or vim or tmux or screen, whether there are end of line indications depends somewhat on the app, and that can affect whether a URL gets broken up and whether it gets embedded whitespace in it etc.
What's you terminal and selection gesture?
Cheers, Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 02:14:28PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 25Jan2019 18:14, Jon LaBadie jonfu@jgcomp.com wrote:
When selection a multi-line URI in a terminal window I've noticed two behaviors. Some will ?ignore? the extra lines and only select to the end of the first line. Others will select the entire URI, typically to an ending ">". Obviously I would prefer the latter.
Is this behavior terminal specific, i.e. gnome-terminal vs mate-terminal vs xterm. Or is it a configuration parameter that I've not found?
Well, selection is definitely per terminal emulator. That said, each terminal may indeed have configuration to tune it. To take a non-X11 example, my iterm3 config has a bunch of options around selection, including things like "double click performs smart selection" and "triple click selects entire wrapped lines" and "trim whitespace when copying to pasteboard".
But it can also very a bit with the source of the text. Text just echoed to the terminal (i.e. a very long URL) will hit the edge of the terminal and wrap onto the next line, and thus the leading lines do not have an "end" indication: if you widen the terminal the URL will flow back onto the earlier wider lines. Versus doing a few echoes of shorter strings: they end in a newline and the terminal knows the next line is distinct.
The lines are definitely "wrapped". I regularly widen my terminal as you suggest to flow it all on to one line. Does not help with really long addresses (which are all too common).
In a curses app, such as mutt or vim or tmux or screen, whether there are end of line indications depends somewhat on the app, and that can affect whether a URL gets broken up and whether it gets embedded whitespace in it etc.
What's you terminal and selection gesture?
Mate-terminal and some gnome-terminal (basically the same).
When a URL is hovered over, the terminal underlines the text. Typically I then click button 3 which presents a menu including "Open Link" and "Copy Link Address".
With some long URIs, I'll manually highlight/select the URI by holding button 1 and copying it to the clipboard.
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On 1/25/19 3:14 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
When selection a multi-line URI in a terminal window I've noticed two behaviors. Some will ?ignore? the extra lines and only select to the end of the first line. Others will select the entire URI, typically to an ending ">". Obviously I would prefer the latter.
Is this behavior terminal specific, i.e. gnome-terminal vs mate-terminal vs xterm. Or is it a configuration parameter that I've not found?
I use gnome-terminal and I've seen both behaviours. It seems to depend on how the text has been printed in some way. If a program is just dumping output to the screen, then usually if I mouse over it, I can see the whole link marked. In that case, right-click, copy link will get the whole thing. But for example, if I'm using less to view a file with urls, the link will get cut off at the edge of the screen. I assume that the terminal is aware that it has wrapped the line, because in those cases, if you change the size of the terminal, it will re-wrap the lines to the new size.
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