[gnome-terminal/wip/mallard-merge: 269/271] help: update txt-select-text.page
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-terminal/wip/mallard-merge: 269/271] help: update txt-select-text.page
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 19:16:24 +0000 (UTC)
commit 070490c29744f5598f0301ebfe3cbaf08aa92fa8
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Sun Mar 3 15:52:08 2013 +0000
help: update txt-select-text.page
Reorder page so that preferences are at the top and generic instructions
are at the bottom.
help/C/txt-select-text.page | 63 +++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/txt-select-text.page b/help/C/txt-select-text.page
index eed1c52..c1df8db 100644
--- a/help/C/txt-select-text.page
+++ b/help/C/txt-select-text.page
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
id="txt-select-text">
<info>
- <revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-02" status="draft"/>
+ <revision version="0.1" date="2013-03-03" status="review"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index#textoutput"/>
<link type="seelaso" xref="txt-copy-paste"/>
@@ -20,56 +20,49 @@
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
- <desc>Selecting text in <app>Terminal</app>.</desc>
+ <desc>Specify which characters should be considered as part of a word.</desc>
</info>
<title>Text selection</title>
- <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>
+ <p>You can define selection criteria for text in <app>Terminal</app>. You can
+ allow <app>Terminal</app> to select only words consisting of letters or words
+ with combinations of letters, numbers and special characters. To specify the
+ range of characters that can be selected:</p>
<steps>
<item>
- <p>Double click on the desired word.</p>
+ <p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui>
+ <gui style="menuitem">Profile Preferences</gui>
+ <gui style="tab">General</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
- </steps>
-
- <p>To select a line in <app>Terminal</app> output:</p>
-
- <steps>
<item>
- <p>Triple click on the desired line.</p>
+ <p>Specify the characters or ranges that you wish to be considered part
+ of words in the <gui>Select-by-word characters</gui> entry field. By
+ default, text selection includes all characters with numbers and some
+ special characters: <var>-A-Za-z0-9,./?%&#:_=+ ~</var></p>
+ <p>Your preferences will be saved automatically.</p>
</item>
</steps>
- </section>
+ <p>Once you have set your selection preference, you can select text in
+ <app>Terminal</app> in two different ways.</p>
- <section id="selection-range">
- <title>Change selection range</title>
+ <p>To select a word in <app>Terminal</app> output:</p>
- <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>Double click on the desired word.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
- <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>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. Your
- preferences will be saved automatically.</p>
- </item>
- </steps>
+ <p>To select a line in <app>Terminal</app> output:</p>
- </section>
+ <steps>
+ <item>
+ <p>Triple click on the desired line.</p>
+ </item>
+ </steps>
</page>
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