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:calendar: CLI calendar application
https://lostpackets.de/khal/
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Unable to select text in interactive view #544

Closed samdmarshall closed 7 years ago

samdmarshall commented 7 years ago

When viewing calendar events in ikhal or khal interactive, the user cannot select text that is displayed in the description or notes section of an event. So, for example, if the additional info contains a URL, there is no way to copy that URL without exporting the event out to a file first. Ideally this should be selectable so that the user interact with the contents of an event.

geier commented 7 years ago

I believe this is a "feature" in urwid (the pseudo graphics toolkit we are using), so that you can click on items to make them focused. I'll investigate.

What works for me™ (ugh! sorry!) is holding shift and selecting at the same time.

samdmarshall commented 7 years ago

That doesn't work at all for me 😢

geier commented 7 years ago

hmm, what OS and terminal are you using?

samdmarshall commented 7 years ago 
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.12.2
BuildVersion:   16C67

and Terminal.app.

geier commented 7 years ago

Ok, that I can't check at the moment, will try on next chance.

samdmarshall commented 7 years ago

Ah, I finally figured this out, I have to use the fn key on OS X + Terminal.app to do text selection. This is still a pain but possible. It is a byproduct of urwid's control schemes -- not sure if anything can be done about this without fundamentally changing urwid or the graphics library used.

geier commented 7 years ago

Sorry for not checking up on this. It looks like we need to decide if we want to let urwid handle the mouse or not (MainLoop(handle_mouse=True)). Perhaps we could make that configurable.

samdmarshall commented 7 years ago

It might also be worth-while to see if urwid can be modified to accept partial mouse input without blocking all mouse access, eg: enable scrolling but not clicks.