On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 09:51:44PM +0100, Piotr Engelking wrote: > Package: consolation > Version: 0.0.4-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Please consider enabling drag to select in the select word mode. For an > example, with the following text: > > Description: PARI/GP Computer Algebra System elliptic curves > > double clicking on 'G' without releasing the mouse button and then > moving the mouse to 'y' could select 'PARI/GP Computer Algebra System'. > Such feature is very useful, as it allows to select text significantly > faster in the common case of selection starting and ending at word > boundaries. Similarly, it could work in the select line mode. Both > features are present and work as described in, at least, terminal > emulators using the VTE library, all GTK+ widgets, Chromium, and > Firefox.
Hello Piotr, I did not know about this feature. And I just checked that this is supported by the kernel selection ioctl, so it is possible to implement it. Thanks for your interest in consolation! -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
