Selecting text with the keyboard

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Apple's Terminal.app allows text to be selected using the keyboard, which
is great for the mouse-phobic. To do so, text selection mode has to be
activated using the key combination Command+Option+Enter, after which the
cursor can be moved around the screen and scrollback to select the required
bit.

That would be a good feature to have in MinTTY, except for the three-key
shortcut perhaps. (I'd have thought those are illegal on Macs?)

Fullscreen could be bumped off Alt+Enter (to some Alt+Fkey combination?) to
make way for this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andy.koppe on 4 Apr 2009 at 7:47

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 26 Apr 2009 at 11:21

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 7 Jun 2009 at 7:52

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That would be great. I asked this to the Konsole team some years ago; they never
implemented it.

Original comment by thiago...@gmail.com on 3 Oct 2009 at 10:35

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 28 Oct 2009 at 8:14

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I'm afraid I'm unlikely to find the tuits for this anytime soon. Sorry. Patches 
thoughtfully considered.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 28 Aug 2010 at 8:43

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I've scribbled down a few thoughts on this at 
http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/9f3a572fbf5c1
b82.

The PuTTY version of this issue suggests ScrollLock as the key for switching 
into selection mode: 
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/keyboard-copy.html.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 23 Sep 2010 at 5:22