Select text using only the keyboard

[vincent-olivert-riera]

This is just a question, not a bug or anything like that.

Does mlterm support selecting text just using the keyboard?

For instance, some terminals like termite enter in "selection mode" when you press ctrl-shift-space, and they you can control the cursor like if you were in a Vim editor, select whatever you want and copy it. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/termite)

Other terminals like kitty have a different approach, where you can set a keyboard shortcut to open the current terminal buffer into your desired editor, select whatever you want and copy it, exit the editor and go back to the terminal, having whatever you copied inside your clipboard. (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/719)

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EDIT

I have read this in mlterm's man:

COPY MODE mlterm enters into copy mode by typing Shift + Control + Return key. In the mode, you can move in the screen including backlog, select region and copy it by the fol- lowing keys.

However, when I press shift-ctrl-return my mlterm does not enter in copy mode.

[arakiken]

In my environment, copy mode starts by pressing Shift+Control+Return. If you add "F1=COPY_MODE" to ~/.mlterm/key and press F1 key, won't copy mode start?

[vincent-olivert-riera]

In my environment, copy mode starts by pressing Shift+Control+Return.

In mine does not start by pressing Shift+Control+Return.

If you add "F1=COPY_MODE" to ~/.mlterm/key and press F1 key, won't copy mode start?

Just tried that and it does not work either. Of course I closed the terminal and opened a different one after modifying that file.

[vincent-olivert-riera]

I'm using the version shipped with Debian Bookworm:

$ mlterm --version
mlterm version 3.9.0 
Features: otl ssh implugin imagelib(builtin) utmp

Could it be because it's old?

[vincent-olivert-riera]

Ok, I think it's because the version shipped with Debian is not built with Wayland support, therefore the mlterm-wl binary is not available.

I just build it from sources and it does work 👍🏻