Hi,

Please flame me if this already exists, or if this is completely crazy.

I'm doing quite a bit of text selection, from Eterms running mutt, or 
plain command line output, and I dislike having to use the mouse for 
this. I would really like to have a way to select some text using only 
the keyboard.

I see this as a mode change: hit some key combination to enter "select" 
mode, move around using the arrow keys (or better the hkjl keys), start 
a selection using some key, move around, and stop selecting (and get out 
of select mode at the same time) using another key.

A nice thing would be to have line or block selections (as in "v", 
"shift-v", and "ctrl-v" in vim).

Is this a crazy idea?

Thanks,

Alan Schmitt

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