Jonathan, You are so kind. Thank you for your response. I’m new to the command line, but I’m very serious in learning. So your kind attitude and response in non-technical terms is very welcome. As to the 2nd point, I was surprised because I’m following Joe Kissel’s from TitBits Take Control of the Command Line in Mac OS book and that’s what he recommends: use of the tab key.
If you were happy/had the time to point me towards any materials on command line/linux, i’d be very grateful. Or if you know of anyone who’d be happy to give some tutorials on Linux, paid of course, I’d appreciate that too. With best wishes Andrew > On 29 Mar 2020, at 20:14, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Well, for the first question just interact a few times with the window and > you should be able to use the voiceover cursor to review and select things. > VO-return should start selecting and vo-return a second time should finish > the selection operation. Also, double tapping with mouse will select a word. > I thought that triple tapping would select a line but had no luck with that. > Of course make sure your mouse is where your VO cursor is before using the VO > shift space to do the tapping. > > Your second question was related to file completion. > This might depend on the shell you are using accounts created in Mojave or > earlier use bash and Catalina created account default to zsh. Also, it will > depend on what the behavior is for partial completions. If you have the files > dar1 dar2 dar3 and dar4 > Pressing d followed by escape will fill in "dar" and then I believe beep. If > you press tap a second time then you should get a list of possible matches. > Note this behavior is strictly related to the shell you are running and its > options set in the shell default / profile / login files. > Jonathan > > > >> On Mar 29, 2020, at 10:21 AM, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> When working in Terminal and command line, is it possible to examine the >> window content with Voiceover? Say , ls -l command produces a list of files >> in the directory I am in. How can I examine each file and maybe even copy >> their names to clipboard or details about them if I were to use the -l flag, >> which would produce long information about each item. >> >> Secondly, reading a book on Command Line, one of the shortcut techniques the >> author teaches is to start typing the name of a directory to which one >> wishes to change and then pressing tab, which would result in Terminal >> completing the name or else giving a list of available names if there should >> be more than one. This doesn’t seem to work. When I press the tab, I hear >> the ominous bong bong. So this technique doesn’t work. 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