selecting text in bash using ctrl + arrows?

amiroof

4/26/24, 3:22 PM

in other GUI based textboxes (like libreoffice or telegram messagebox) i can select the text with ctrl and arrow keys and cntrl + shift + arrow keys to select entire words. but in bash ternimal that don't work. is there a way to make it work?

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bash

Sadaharu Wakisaka

4/29/24, 3:29 AM

https://superuser.com/questions/236158/tmux-vs-screen

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Ubuntu

vanadium

4/27/24, 8:04 AM

The terminal is a terminal emulator: it emulates a terminal. Thus, the default keybindings work similarly as they do in a text console terminal, a tty.

In the default terminal emulator of Ubuntu, gnome-terminal, you can set shortcut keys in the Preferences. However, you depend on what your terminal emulator program allows. For gnome-terminal, there are no options to set shortcut keys to select text, except for select all text. So what you are after will not be possible.

Still, you could set a key for Select all, e.g. Ctrl+Shift+A, a combination not used by bash. This copies the entire buffer, i.e., not only what you see. Even if you clear the screen with the bash shortcut Ctrl+L, the entire buffer is still selected and can be copied to the clipboard. In contrast, the command clear not only clears the screen, but also the buffer.

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