On Wednesday, 18 August 2004, at 10:56:46 (+0200),
Alan Schmitt wrote:

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

No, neither.

> 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).

I'm hesitant to add general-use keyboard features.  It's important to
not obstruct terminal applications' use of key sequences.

Michael

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