Double click in gnome-terminal and mate-terminal selects different text parts

[Ahmad Samir]

On 28 June 2015 at 17:47, Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running f22 with MATE desktop and GNOME3 desktop. I'm seeing
> different strategies selecting text in gnome-terminal and mate-terminal:
>
> Suppose there is a line containing the text
> "sy-2015-06-13_08:21:23-4.0.5-300-F22" in both terminals. Double
> clicking in the gnome-terminal on "sy-2015-06-13_08:21:23-4.0.5-300-F22"
> selects only "sy-2015-06-13_08" (stopping at first ":"), but in
> mate-terminal the same double click will select the complete text
> "sy-2015-06-13_08:21:23-4.0.5-300-F22".
>
> I don't understand the different strategies.
>

Open mate-terminal -> Edit -> Profile Preferences -> General, now look
at the "Select-by-word characters" setting, you'll most likely find
":" included there.

gnome-terminal had an option like that in F21 but it was removed in
recent releases of gnome-terminal i.e. the version in F22. You can
make the behaviour similar to mate-terminal by using this workaround:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730632#c33

(Have a look at  the whole bug report for more details/info).


-- 
Ahmad Samir