[gnome-terminal/wip/mallard-merge: 299/320] Help: Added help to txt-select-text.page.



commit 8bc2e422f05244af221ade1feca33cafdc2c9b34
Author: Sindhu S <sindhus live in>
Date:   Tue Feb 26 21:31:51 2013 +0530

    Help: Added help to txt-select-text.page.
    
    Added help on selecting text in Terminal and how to change
    text selection criteria in Profile Preferences.

 help/C/txt-select-text.page |   50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/help/C/txt-select-text.page b/help/C/txt-select-text.page
index aa12760..5cc7f5b 100644
--- a/help/C/txt-select-text.page
+++ b/help/C/txt-select-text.page
@@ -11,12 +11,54 @@
     </credit>
 
     <link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/>
+    <link type="seelaso" xref="txt-copy-paste"/>
 
-    <desc>Select text by character, word or line.</desc>
+    <desc>Selecting text in <app>Terminal</app>.</desc>
 
   </info>
 
-  <title>Select text</title>
+  <title>Text Selection</title>
 
-  <p></p>
-</page>
+  <p>Before you can copy text from <app>Terminal</app>, you have mark your selection. You can select text in 
<app>Terminal</app> in two different ways. You can also set the selection criteria.</p>
+
+  <section id="select-text">
+    <title>Select text by word or line</title>
+
+  <p>To select a word in <app>Terminal</app> output:</p>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item>
+      <p>Double click on the desired word.</p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+
+  <p>To select a line in <app>Terminal</app> output:</p>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item>
+      <p>Triple click on the desired line.</p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+
+  </section>
+
+  <section id="selection-range">
+    <title>Change selection range</title>
+
+  <p>You can define selection criteria for text in <app>Terminal</app>. You can allow <app>Terminal</app> to 
select only alphabets in words or words with combinations of numbers and special characters. To specify the 
range of characters that can be selected:</p>
+
+  <steps>
+    <item>
+      <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui><gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui><gui 
style="tab">General</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>In the input box for <gui style="input">Select-by-word characters</gui> edit the default range to 
suit your requirements. By default, text selection includes all characters with numbers and special 
characters.</p>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <p>Changes are saved immediately. Click <gui style="button">Close</gui> to quit the dialog and return 
to <app>Terminal</app>.</p>
+    </item>
+  </steps>
+
+  </section>
+
+</page>
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